Remove vertical scroll bar

Bluubekt · ‎02-08-2009

Been hunting high and low to find out how to get rid of the vertical scrollbar in the BlackBerry browser. The app I'm developing has a fixed height and width and is specific to the Bold/CurveII screen resolution (with browser version >= 4.6) so the scrollbar is not needed. Here's some sample code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
	<meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="true" />
	<title></title>
	<style>
	*,html {
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	}
	body {
	font-family: 'BBAlpha sans';
	font-size: 100%;
	overflow: hidden;
	}
	div#page {
	border: 5px solid blue;
	width: 440px;
	height: 260px;
	margin: 0 auto;
	}
	</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="page">
<p>Some text...</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Most grateful for any suggestions.

Bluubekt

P.S. The BlackBerry Browser Development Guide states: "When a web page does not fit on one screen, a vertical scroll bar appears on the right side of the screen." This seems to indicate that it should not be there when the web page does fit on screen.

Bluubekt · ‎02-08-2009

I should add that this application is designed for use with the "Hotspot Browser", it is not to be parsed by BIS/BES servers but rendered directly on the BlackBerry.

Bluubekt

Xandrex · ‎07-29-2008

here is a discussion about the horizontal scroll bar. Not the same issue, but there is a link to the developer knowledge base about zoom.

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/rim/board/message?board.id=browser_dev&message.id=450&query.id=9...

hth.

The search box on top-right of this page is your true friend, and the public Knowledge Base too:

Bluubekt · ‎02-08-2009

Thanks for your reply. I had already added the HandheldFriendly meta tag as you can see from the code I posted. I've also experimented with the viewport tag and have found that <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,height=292" /> makes the page render full height, any less than 292 and i get a grey area at the bottom of the screen. None of this has any effect on the vertical scrollbar though!

Thanks,

Bluubekt

MSohm · ‎07-09-2008

The vertical scroll bar is always shown on the BlackBerry Browser. What version of the browser development guide are you referring to?

Mark Sohm
BlackBerry Development Advisor

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