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Asked: 2026-05-31T21:32:02+00:00

I have a page setup with a scroll bar that is set with a

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I have a page setup with a scroll bar that is set with a css overflow function but the scroll bar will not showing in Safari 5.1.3? It shows in different versions of IE/FF and even older versions of Safari (5.0.5).

I have tried every combination of “overflow” I know of, “overflow:scroll;”, “overflow:auto;”, “overflow-x:scroll;” “overflow-y:scroll;” etc. but none work. I have even tried setting in-line styling of css but can’t get it to show.

The html (this is not the complete html, there are a lot more images in the div, I just didn’t want to put too much html in the post. I have 25 images in each div, so 5 “ul”s with 5 images in each “ul”): 

    <ul>
        <li><a href="images/rings/large/ring01_L.jpg"><img src="images/rings/thumbnails/ring01.jpg" width="75" height="75" border="0" /></a></li>
        <li><a href="images/rings/large/ring02_L.jpg"><img src="images/rings/thumbnails/ring02.jpg" width="75" height="75" border="0" /></a></li>
        <li><a href="images/rings/large/ring03_L.jpg"><img src="images/rings/thumbnails/ring03.jpg" width="75" height="75" border="0" /></a></li>
        <li><a href="images/rings/large/ring04_L.jpg"><img src="images/rings/thumbnails/ring04.jpg" width="75" height="75" border="0" /></a></li>
        <li><a href="images/rings/large/ring05_L.jpg"><img src="images/rings/thumbnails/ring05.jpg" width="75" height="75" border="0" /></a></li>
    </ul>

The CSS:

#thumbs1 {
    height: 450px;
    overflow: auto;
    width: 25%;
    z-index: 1;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0px;
    left: 120px;
    margin-top: 50px;
}

Here is a link to my sample page I have been testing with – page Each div has a different option set for overflow, but still none work in Safari 5.1.3.

Any pointers?

Thanks in advance…

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  1. Editorial Team

    It turns out that the user that was seeing this issue was using a track-pad with here MAC, when she unplugs the track-pad she can see the scroll bar!

    So it seems that the screen acts like an iPhone when the track-pad is plugged in as on an iPhone you do not get the scroll bar either. If using a track-pad you have to use two fingers and drag the thumbs to scroll, like on an iPhone.

    Hope this will help others avoide spending the same amount of time I spent on this!

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