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How to synchronize two scrollbars for divs with different style overflow

I have a problem trying sync scroll in divs, I have a two divs, the first div has a style with overflow: hidden and the second div has the style with overflow:scroll,then i found a several answers for sync scroll in divs using jquery for example :
$("#div2").scroll(function () {
$("#div1").scrollTop($(this).scrollTop());
});
http://jsfiddle.net/gqHyW/43/
but i have a problem with that solution because at the bottom of scroll the divs are desynchronized , see the image .
Someone has an idea how to solve this error.
Thank you in advance

Your horizontal scroll is showing despite not needing to be there. You can target your horizontal scroll and hide it, while keeping your vertical scroll:
.bottom {
left : 50%;
overflow-y : scroll;
overflow-x : hidden;
}

My bad on my previous answer.
I see what you're after now.
You need to rifle through your P tags and sync the heights depending on the content heights in each.
Here's a function that ought to work in either direction:
var topPs = $(".top p");
var bottomPs = $(".bottom p");
for(var i=0; i< topPs.length;i++){
var topPHeight = $(topPs[i]).height();
var bottomPHeight = $(bottomPs[i]).height();
console.log(bottomPHeight);
if(bottomPHeight>topPHeight){
$(topPs[i]).height(bottomPHeight);
}else{
$(bottomPs[i]).height(topPHeight);
}
}
You still need the horizontal scroll fix I mentioned in my other answers.
I rolled it into a single fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/op9nddoq/1/
Edit: since this isn't a layout hack, it's perfectly acceptable to use a table here, as it's a table, and the cell heights will adjust all by themselves.

How would I make div stick to top of screen using this code?

The code below is test code I'm using. The blue bar is supposed to stick to the top of the screen when it reaches the top.
This works on my browser, but the reason I'm here is because when it sticks to the top, it all of a sudden becomes smaller. As you see the blue bar starts with a full width across the container, but on my computer/browser, after it sticks to the top, the div shrinks to just the size of the text.
To make matters worse, I cannot reproduce the problem on jfiddle, because in jfiddle it doesn't work at all! (The images are just there to create a scroll).
Here is the jfiddle
Here is the jquery:
var titlePosition = $('.title').offset().top;
$(window).scroll(function () {
var scrollBar = $(this).scrollTop();
if (scrollBar > titlePosition) {
$('.title').css("top", "0px");
$('.title').css("position", "fixed");
} else {
$('.title').css("position", "relative");
}
});

Try this code:
Fiddle
CSS:
.title {
font-size:200%;
background-color:blue;
width:100%
}

Update your code:
if (scrollBar > titlePosition) {
$('.title').css("top", scrollBar+"px");
$('.title').css("position", "fixed");
} else {
$('.title').css("position", "static"); //otherwise it will still get that top value and cause unwanted position;
}

Just add this css:
.title {
...
width: 100%; /*This does the trick*/
}
Here you have it working: http://jsfiddle.net/edgarinvillegas/yPWAC/3/
Cheers

Set left to 0 as well. Additionally, some optimizations.
I prefer appending/removing classes to put all your CSS in your stylesheet. Saves you from problems later on when the code gets huge (who would be looking for CSS in JS files anyway?).
Also, cache objects. Everytime you fire scroll, your code fetches every single .title in the DOM and generates a jQuery object. Not very optimal. Instead, get all .title and just do the modifications on each scroll.
CSS:
.title.fixed {
position:fixed;
left:0;
right:0;
top:0;
}
JS:
var titlePosition = $('.title').offset().top;
var win = $(window);
var title = $('.title');
win.scroll(function () {
var scrollBar = win.scrollTop();
if (scrollBar > titlePosition) title.addClass('fixed');
else title.removeClass('fixed');
});
As for your non-working fiddle, you forgot to include jQuery. That should be found on the top left.

Try giving z-index:999 or, using jQuery - $('.title').css("z-index", "999");
Rest looks ok.

var titlePosition = $('.title').offset().top;
.top is not a function. offset() returns an object containing the properties top and left
Replace with:
var titlePosition = $('.title').offset();
You can now access the properties like so:
titlePosition.top or titlePosition.left
reference: .offset() http://api.jquery.com/offset/

Thanks for all the feedback.
Even though it helped improve, in the end the div was still resizing. Fixing the width to specific values was not responsive enough.
I finally stumbled upon a solution, based on all the advice:
http://jsfiddle.net/yPWAC/8/
var titleWidth = $('.title').width()
/*then after the div is fixed I change the width */
$('.title').css("width",titleWidth);
I made jquery hold the original width of the div, then change the width of the sticky div to whatever that value is.
For some reason, even if I defined the original width in CSS, the new sticky width would still come out a different size in the browser. So this method gives it the same width as the original (whatever it may be)

Overflow: hidden but i still want to have the empty scrollbar

I set 'overflow:hidden' on my html body with Javascript when I press a button. But when I do that the whole body moves 5 pixels or so to the left because the space of the scrollbar is gone. How do i prevent that.
I can't set margin of the body to a specific size because the width of scrollbars differentiate between browsers

Since the previous solution does not work anymore (see original answer below), I've come across another solution which works for me and, according to MDN, it should work in all browser, with IE starting from version 6.
This solution to get the scrollbar width is even a bit simplified:
Append a div without a scrollbar to the body and position it off screen
Measure the client width of the div
Set the div to have a scrollbar (using css overflow style)
Measure the clientWidth of the div again
Remove the div
Return the difference of the two widths
And the code would look like this:
function scrollbarWidth() {
var div = $('<div style="width:50px;height:50px;overflow:hidden;position:absolute;top:-200px;left:-200px;"></div>');
// Append our div, do our calculation and then remove it
$('body').append(div);
var w1 = div.prop('clientWidth');
div.css('overflow-y', 'scroll');
var w2 = div.prop('clientWidth');
$(div).remove();
return (w1 - w2);
}
And here is a working jsFiddle.
Original answer (for completeness sake)
Here is a solution to calculate the width of a scrollbar, which you can use in conjuction with some of the other answers here (and your own knowledge as far as I can tell).
The idea is to do the following steps:
Append two divs to the body and position them off screen
Measure the width of the inner div
Set the outer div to overflow
Measure the width of the inner div (again)
Remove the divs
Return the difference of the two widths
And here is the code, copied from the referenced page:
function scrollbarWidth() {
var div = $('<div style="width:50px;height:50px;overflow:hidden;position:absolute;top:-200px;left:-200px;"><div style="height:100px;"></div>');
// Append our div, do our calculation and then remove it
$('body').append(div);
var w1 = $('div', div).innerWidth();
div.css('overflow-y', 'scroll');
var w2 = $('div', div).innerWidth();
$(div).remove();
return (w1 - w2);
}

You could try this old trick:
html {
overflow-y: scroll;
}
What this does is force the scrollbar to always be visible.
Compare:
normal JSFiddle
JSFiddle with the vertical scrollbar always there

Here is code to add a disabled vertical scroll bar. If placed more prominent in CSS than the rest of the CSS, it should override whatever you've done to other portions.
html {
overflow-y: scroll;
}

You could always put a wrapper around the content that you are hiding and then place the overflow: scroll on div and overflow: hidden on the content div.
#wrapper { overflow-y: scroll; }
#content { overflow: hidden; }
See the attached fiddle for a working version
http://jsfiddle.net/15km/bfpAD/1/

How to keep jQuery function from moving elements all the way to the left?

I was able to implement the solution posted here ("position: fixed and absolute at the same time. HOW?") to get a div element to move with the rest of the page horizontally, but stay fixed vertically. However, this solution causes the selected element to move ALL the way to the left of the page (with what appears to be a 20px margin). I'm still new to javascript and jQuery, but as I understand it, the following:
$(window).scroll(function(){
var $this = $(this);
$('#homeheader').css('left', 20 - $this.scrollLeft());});
takes the selected element and, upon scrolling by the user, affects the CSS of the element so that its position from the left becomes some function of the current scrollbar position adjusted by the 20px margin. If this is correct? And if so, can anyone think of a way that I could change it so that instead of moving the selected element all the way to the left side of the window, we only move it as far left as my default CSS position for the body elements of the HTML document (shown below)?
body {font-size:100%;
width: 800px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;}
EDIT: Here is a jsfiddle (code here) that I made to illustrate the issue. My page is designed so that when it is displayed in full-screen or near full-screen mode, the #homeheader element appears centered horizontally due to its width and the left and right margins being set to auto. As the page gets smaller and smaller the margins do as well, until they disappear altogether and are replaced by the padding-left and padding-right settings of 20px. So at this point (when the window is small enough that the margins disappear altogether), which is what the jsfiddle shows, the code appears to work as intended, but when the window is full-sized the JS overrides the CSS and pushes the div element all the way to the left (getting rid of the margin) upon any scrolling action.

There are two events you need to handle to get this to work correctly. First is the scroll event which you are pretty close on. The only thing you might want to do is to use offset to get the current left position value based on the document.
The other event which is not yet handled is the resize event. If you don't handle this then once a left position is defined your element (header) will be there always regardless of whether or not the user resizes the window.
Basically something like this should work:
var headeroffset;
var header = $('#homeheader');
// handle scroll
$(window).scroll(function() {
// auto when not defined
if (headeroffset === undefined) {
// capture offset for current screen size
headeroffset = header.offset();
}
// calculate offset
var leftOffset = headeroffset.left - $(this).scrollLeft();
// set left offset
header.css('left', leftOffset);
});
// handle resize
$(window).resize(function() {
// remove left setting
// (this stops the element from being stuck after a resize event
if (header.css('left') !== 'auto') {
header.css('left', '');
headeroffset = undefined;
}
});
JSFiddle example: http://jsfiddle.net/infiniteloops/ELCq7/6/
http://jsfiddle.net/infiniteloops/ELCq7/6/show
This type of effect can be done purely in css however, i would suggest taking a look at the full page app series Steve Sanderson did recently.
http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2011/10/05/full-height-app-layouts-a-css-trick-to-make-it-easier/
As an example you could do something like this:
http://jsfiddle.net/infiniteloops/ELCq7/18/

Try this
$('#homeheader').css('left', parseInt($('body').css('margin-left')) - $this.scrollLeft());});
What I did here is just replace 20 with body's left-margin value.

Chrome Extension Scrollbar Placement

After dabbling in Chrome Extensions I've noticed that when the data inside the Page Action gets to a certain point the scroll bars automatically attach themselves to the popup, this I expect. However, instead of pushing the content to the left of the scroll bar it overlays the content causing a horizontal scrollbar to become active. I ended up just adding a check on my data and applying a css class to push the content to the left more to run parallel to the scroll bar and beside it not under it. What is the correct way to handle this besides my hackish solution?

I was wondering this myself too. Currently I just don't put anything important closer than 20px to the right side of a popup and disable horizontal scrollbars:
body {overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:auto;}
So when a vertical scrollbar appears the content at least doesn't jump.

Perhaps you need to specify a width on the scrollbar.
::-webkit-scrollbar {
width: 42px; //Do not know actual width, but I assume you do
}

I haven't found a way to do this that isn't a hack, but here's the simplest hack I could think of:
<script type="text/javascript">
function tweakWidthForScrollbar() {
var db = document.body;
var scrollBarWidth = db.scrollHeight > db.clientHeight ?
db.clientWidth - db.offsetWidth : 0;
db.style.paddingRight = scrollBarWidth + "px";
}
</script>
...
<body onresize="tweakWidthForScrollbar()">
The idea is to detect whether the vertical scrollbar is in use, and if it is, calculate its width and allocate just enough extra padding for it.