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Asked: 2026-05-26T19:12:18+00:00

IE6, IE7, and IE8 display a vertical scroll bar for the page by default

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IE6, IE7, and IE8 display a vertical scroll bar for the page by default even if it is not scrollable. Chrome and Firefox do not do this (I’m assuming Opera and Safari do not as well). You can accomplish this same behavior in FireFox using the CSS:

body { overflow: -moz-scrollbars-vertical; }

Is there any way to force the visible scrollbar in the other three browsers? Or even better, a standard way of doing it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Update

    You may (in addition) need to include -ms-overflow-y and/or -moz-scrollbars-vertical, as mentioned in this other StackOverflow post:

    html {
    overflow: -moz-scrollbars-vertical; /* For FF */
    -ms-overflow-y: scroll; /* For IE */
    overflow-y: scroll; /* For others & old IE */
}

    Original

    html { overflow-y: scroll; }

    See “overflow-y” at W3Schools

    Tested & verified (successfully) in:

    • FF 7
    • Chrome 15
    • IE 5+6+7+8+9+10(platform preview) w/IETester
    • Opera 11.52
    • Safari/Win 5.1.1

    Full example

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<style type="text/css">
    html { overflow-y: scroll; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
    Test content
</body>
</html>
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