How to hide scroll bar for inactivity?

Last Updated : 24 Jul, 2024

There are many ways to hide the scroll bar when the page is inactive. One such way is using the onscroll, onmousewheel, onclick, and onmousemove events, which help us to achieve our goal using basic HTML and JavaScript.

Approach:

The onscroll event is used to disable the scroll bar.
The onscroll event acts as soon as the page is scrolled. So, the setTimeout() method is used to provide a delay to hide the scroll bar, so that we are able to scroll down first.
The time can be adjusted according to our requirements.
onmousemove event is used to enable scrolling as soon as the mouse pointer is moved. onclick event is used to enable scrolling as soon as the user clicks. onmousewheel event is used to enable scrolling as soon as the page is scrolled down. Thus, these events help us to enable scrolling when the page becomes active again.

Example 1: As soon as the mouse moves, the mouse is scrolled, or the user clicks, the enableScrolling() function is called which allows us to scroll down. When the user tries to scroll down, the disableScrolling() function is called, which makes the scroll bar disappear after 1000ms. This time can be varied. To enable the scroll bar again, move the mouse pointer, or click, or scroll the mouse pointer to call the enableScrolling() function. The styling of the text has been done using the ‘style’ tag. The HTML and JavaScript code is as follows:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>
        How to hide scroll bar
        for inactivity?
    </title>
    
    <style>
        p {
            font-size: 2rem;
        }
    </style>
</head>

<body onscroll="disableScrolling()"
      onmousewheel="enableScrolling()"
      onclick="enableScrolling()"
      onmousemove="enableScrolling()">
    
    <p>
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    </p>

    <script>
    
        // JavaScript code
        function disableScrolling() {
            setTimeout(function() {
                document.body.style.overflow = 'hidden';
            }, 1000);
        }
        
        function enableScrolling() {
            document.body.style.overflow = '';
        }
    </script>
</body>
  
</html>

Output:

Example 2: This example hides the scrollbar on the image.

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>
        How to hide scroll bar
        for inactivity?
    </title>

    <style>
        img {
            display: block;
            margin-left: auto;
            margin-right: auto;
            width: 150%;
        }
    </style>
</head>

<body onscroll="disableScrolling()"
      onmousewheel="enableScrolling()"
      onclick="enableScrolling()"
      onmousemove="enableScrolling()">

    <img src=
"https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/cdn-uploads/20191024224332/Geeksforgeeks-Paid-Online-Courses.png" alt="GfG">

    <script>
    
        // JavaScript code
        function disableScrolling() {
            setTimeout(function() {
                document.body.style.overflow = 'hidden';
            }, 1000);
        }
        
        function enableScrolling() {
            document.body.style.overflow = '';
        }
    </script>
</body>
  
</html>

Output: The main disadvantage of hiding the scroll bar for inactivity is that as soon as the scrollbar hides, the contents of the body ‘jump’ to fill up the space that was occupied by the scrollbar. Thus, it does not appear very appealing to the user.

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