IE + overflow: hidden

Question

I don't know is that an issue or bug, but when I use overflow: hidden, selecting the text and moving the cursor to the page bottom in IE, the page is scrolling (I tried IE9-IE11)! When I use Firefox/Opera/Chrome/Safari the page isn't scrolling... I have to use overflow: hidden, but it has an odd behavior in IE.

So, my question is: how can I avoid page scrolling in IE?

Answer 1

I have a solution for it but not sure that this is the right way or not but you can try it.

http://jsfiddle.net/b5DYf/1/

html{
  position:fixed;
}

Answer 2

Have you looked at the -ms-overflow-style property?

-ms-overflow-style: none;

More information available here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh771902(v=vs.85).aspx

Answer 3

Use -ms-scroll-limit: 0 0 0 0; to prevent any scrolling whatsoever in IE 10+. For older browsers you can write a workaround using JavaScript.

Example of CSS and JavaScript:

body {
  overflow: hidden;
  -ms-scroll-limit: 0 0 0 0;
}

window.onscroll = function (event) {
  window.scrollTo(0, 0);
}

window.onscroll = function (event) {
  window.scrollTo(0, 0);
}

body {
  overflow: hidden;
  -ms-scroll-limit: 0 0 0 0;
}

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(overflow: hidden is apparently inconsistent across browsers, but I do not know which browser does it right.)