How do I remove the scroll bar and let other elements appear on top of my
?

Question

After spedning hours perfecting my dropdown menu and then getting my main holding all my text, the container holdding my main text is now appearing on top of everything. I want my drop down menu items to appear on top of everything else. As an asside, i made the text inside my container for the main area overflow: auto and made the container have overflow: hidden. It got rid of the bottom scroll bar but is there a way of hidding the vertical scroll bar? Here is the HTML and CSS pertaining to my particular problem.

html {
  height: 100%;
  min-height: 100%;
}
body {
  margin: 0px;
}
#header {
  position: fixed;
  width: 100%;
  margin: 0px;
  background: rgba(67, 69, 76, 0.87);
  padding: 30px;
  text-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #000000;
  text-align: center;
  color: white;
}
#header h1 {
  position: center;
  padding: 0px;
  margin: 0px;
}
#menu-bar {
  position: fixed;
  top: 97px;
  width: 100%;
}
#menu-bar ul {
  width: 100%;
  background: rgba(30, 51, 74, 0.74);
  list-style: none;
  position: relative;
  float: left;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
#menu-bar ul a {
  display: block;
  color: white;
  text-decoration: none;
  font-weight: 700;
  font-size: 12px;
  line-height: 40px;
  padding: 0 15px;
  font-family: "HelveticaNeue", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}
#menu-bar ul li {
  position: relative;
  float: left;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
#menu-bar ul li:hover {
  background: rgb(90, 42, 0);
}
#menu-bar ul ul {
  display: none;
  position: absolute;
  top: 100%;
  left: 0;
  background: rgb(32, 42, 60);
}
#menu-bar ul ul li {
  float: none;
}
#menu-bar ul ul a {
  line-height: 120%;
  padding: 10px;
}
#menu-bar ul ul ul {
  top: 0;
  left: 100%
}
#menu-bar ul li:hover > ul {
  display: block;
  background: rgb(32, 42, 60);
}
#section {
  background-color: grey;
  color: black;
  width: 50%;
  height: 66%;
  float: right;
  padding: 50px;
  overflow: hidden;
  position: fixed;
  top: 160px;
  right: 30%;
}
#scroll {
  overflow: auto;
  height: 100%;
}
#footer {
  position: fixed;
  z-index: 100;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 100%;
  background: rgb(25, 25, 62);
  background: rgba(25, 25, 62, 0.6);
  color: white;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 5px;
}
strong {
  color: #FF3399;
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">

<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>
    Site Title
  </title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style1.css">
</head>

<body>
  <div id="header">
    <h1>
      Site Header
    </h1>
  </div>
  <!--Drop-Down Nav-bar-->
  <div id="menu-bar">
    <ul>
      <li>
        <a href="#">
          Home
        </a>
      </li>
      <li>
        <a href="#">
          1
        </a>
        <ul>
          <li>
            <a href="#">
              1-1
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="#">
              1-2
            </a>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li>
        <a href="#">
          2
        </a>
        <ul>
          <li>
            <a href="#">
              2-1
            </a>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li>
        <a href="#">
          3
        </a>
        <ul>
          <li>
            <a href="#" target="_blank">
              3-1
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="#" target="_blank">
              3-2
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="#" target="_blank">
              3-3
            </a>
            <ul>
              <li>
                <a href="#" target="_blank">
                  3-3-1
                </a>
              </li>
              <li>
                <a href="#" target="_blank">
                  3-3-2
                </a>
              </li>
              <li>
                <a href="#" target="_blank">
                  3-3-3
                </a>
              </li>
              <li>
                <a href="#" target="_blank">
                  3-3-4
                </a>
              </li>
            </ul>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li>
        <a href="#">
          4
        </a>
        <ul>
          <li>
            <a href="#" target="_blank">
              4-1
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="#" target="_blank">
              4-2
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="#" target="_blank">
              4-3
            </a>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>
  <!--Main text area-->
  <div id="section">
    <div id="scroll">
      <h2>
        <u>
          Header
        </u>
      </h2>
      <p>
        Writing goes here
      </p>
    </div>
  </div>
</body>

</html>

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 24 '15 at 19:18

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Set #menu-bar to z-index: 1 for it to appear above your content.

answered Sep 24 '15 at 19:18

Sam A. Horvath-Hunt

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 24 '15 at 19:22

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There's 2 things that need to be done here for your desired results.

First, getting the dropdown menu above the content, simply use Z-index. The z-index on the dropdown needs to be greater than the content below:

#menu-bar {
  z-index: 1;
  position: fixed;
  top: 97px;
  width: 100%;
}

Second, if you want to remove the vertical scroll bar, you need to hide the overflow on the y-axis:

#scroll {
  overflow-y: hidden;
  height: 100%;
  margin-bottom: 15px;
}

Take a look at the working code here: http://jsfiddle.net/1wj6krzc/

answered Sep 24 '15 at 19:22

Ryan Fitzgerald

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Thanks, the z-index worked perfectly which was my main problem. On the aside of the scroll-bar, I should maybe have clarified a little more. I want to remove the scroll-bar itself but not loose the scrolling functionality so I can still scroll through all my text without having to look at that ugly bar on th eside lol – StarKiller4011 Sep 24 '15 at 19:39
Unfortunately there isn't really a clean way to do that, haha. Take a look here though: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3296644/hiding-the-scrollbar-on-an-html-page](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3296644/hiding-the-scrollbar-on-an-html-page). That should be what you're looking for, specifically the second answer – Ryan Fitzgerald Sep 24 '15 at 19:50
The second answer on that worked perfectly, thank you so much – StarKiller4011 Sep 24 '15 at 20:36
Small update to that. Works amazing in Chrome, doesn't work at all in IE (not really a surprise there) or in Firefox (was rather surprised at this one) – StarKiller4011 Sep 24 '15 at 20:41
Ye the problem with that solution is it is for WebKit browsers only, its unfortunate but there really isn't a clean way of accomplishing it in all browsers as far as I'm aware – Ryan Fitzgerald Sep 24 '15 at 20:46

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How do I remove the scroll bar and let other elements appear on top of my
?