Question

whenever the page’s height is larger than the web browser window a scrollbar will appear to the right so you can scroll down/up in your page.

could scrollbar be displayed with javascript/jquery all the time even if there is no need for it? (has to do with a layout issue i’ve got)

Answer 1

If you give the appropriate container element the style `overflow: scroll’ then it’ll have scrollbars. You can do that with jQuery if you like:

$('#containerId').css({overflow: 'scroll'});

Or of course you can do it in a CSS file, or even right on the element itself. You’ll have to figure out which element to do that to; post some code if you need advice.