How to hide scrollbar on your element in TailwindCSS

Hi there👋,

You don't want your UI to look like this?

Here are two steps to follow in order to hide a scrollbar in your HTML elements using TailwindCss.

Step I

Go to your global.css file styles/global.css and past this code:

/* global index.css */ 
@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

/* add the code bellow */ 
@layer utilities {
      /* Hide scrollbar for Chrome, Safari and Opera */
      .no-scrollbar::-webkit-scrollbar {
          display: none;
      }
     /* Hide scrollbar for IE, Edge and Firefox */
      .no-scrollbar {
          -ms-overflow-style: none;  /* IE and Edge */
          scrollbar-width: none;  /* Firefox */
    }
  }

At this point we added ::-webkit-scrollbar to target the scrollbar style in Chrome,Safari, Edge and Opera.

no-scrollbar is the class that we are going to use for hidding the scrollbar.

Step II

Now use no-scrollbar to hide the scrollbar in your elements. Like this:

<div className="w-full h-42 overflow-y-scroll no-scrollbar">...</div>

Result

I hope you find this post useful.

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Comments

[Collins Edim]

Great share, Derick. This really helped me 🫡

BTW, if you're using TailwindCSS v3.0 or higher, you should remove:

@variants responsive {
}

else you'll get this warning in terminal:

warn - The `@variants` directive has been deprecated in Tailwind CSS v3.0.
warn - Use `@layer utilities` or `@layer components` instead.
warn - https://tailwindcss.com/docs/upgrade-guide#replace-variants-with-layer

[Derick Zihalirwa]

I've already updated the code based on your suggestion, Nice Catch

[Dipankar Paul]

Thanks for sharing.
Btw scrollbar-width: none; didn't work for me.
But using scrollbar-width: 0; worked.

[胡永]

you win chatgpt4 for this problem

[Derick Zihalirwa]

Thank you so much for your kind words!

[Abdirisakhd]

thanks this help me alot

[Derick Zihalirwa]

Your are welcome

[Zeeshan Safdar]

Amazing Derick. You solved my problem.

[tomartisan]

@layer base {
  * {
    @apply border-border;
  }
  html,
  body {
    @apply no-scrollbar;
  }
}

Combine the author's above, global scrollbar was hidden 😁

[Derick Zihalirwa]

Nice one 💯

[Francois18]

Nice👏🎉

[Derick Zihalirwa]

Thank you

[Amsale Gebrehana]

Great! Thank you.

[Adam - The Developer]

thank you!

[Derick Zihalirwa]

I'm glad it helped

[Amir Kermanshahani]

How should I make scrollbar visible in desktop and hidden in mobile?

[Derick Zihalirwa]

I don't know but try this and let me know if it works:
in your global.css add this code:

/* global.css */
@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

@layer utilities {
  /* Hide scrollbar for Chrome, Safari and Opera */
  .no-scrollbar::-webkit-scrollbar {
    display: none;
  }
  /* Hide scrollbar for IE, Edge and Firefox */
  .no-scrollbar {
    -ms-overflow-style: none;  /* IE and Edge */
    scrollbar-width: none;  /* Firefox */
  }
  /* Show scrollbar */
  .scrollbar::-webkit-scrollbar {
    display: block;
  }
  .scrollbar {
    -ms-overflow-style: auto;  /* IE and Edge */
    scrollbar-width: auto;  /* Firefox */
  }
}

Now, use the scrollbar class in combination with the lg (large screen) prefix from Tailwind to make the scrollbar visible only on desktop:

<div className="w-full h-42 overflow-y-scroll no-scrollbar lg:scrollbar">...</div>