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Horizontal scrolling in an HTML ListBox (not a container)?

I have a list with many items, some of which have long labels. So I need to scroll horizontally and vertically.

I tried putting the list box in a div and applying the overflow style to both, but this one has problems. Scrolling horizontally on a div scrolls the list box, not the contents. For example, when I scroll, I end up seeing the edge of the window with its scroll bar. What causes the second problem; I need to scroll horizontally to go to the vertical scroll bar of the list, since the vertical scroll bar of the div (if present) will move to the list box, not its contents.

To understand what I'm talking about, try this jsFiddle in FireFox or IE (Chrome works fine).

Here is the code:

div { height: 100px; width: 300px; overflow: auto; } select { height: 200px; overflow: visible; } 
 <div> <select multiple> <option>1 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>2 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>3 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>4 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>5 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>6 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>7 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>8 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>9 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>10 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>11 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>12 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>13 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>14 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>15 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>16 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>17 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>18 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>19 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>20 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>21 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> </select> </div>

Is there a way to get horizontal and vertical scrollbars in the list box that act in the contents of the list and works in Chrome, IE (don't worry about older versions), FireFox and Safari?

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First set the size attribute to select the number of options. You can then add another div and use it to more or less cut out an unused scrollbar.

Working example

 .wrap { height: 100px; width: 300px; overflow: auto; } .crop { overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; } select { border: none; margin: 0px -20px 0px 0px; /* hide unused scroll bar */ } 
 <div class="wrap"> <div class="crop"><!-- add a croping container --> <select multiple size="21"><!--add size attribute equal to the length of list--> <option>1 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>2 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>3 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>4 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>5 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>6 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>7 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>8 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>9 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>10 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>11 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>12 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>13 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>14 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>15 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>16 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>17 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>18 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>19 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>20 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> <option>21 Vsdjflksdj fkajsdk fasjd;fkl sdaj;fk asdjf asdkljf klsdaj;f lsdajfk l;sdjkflsdjf kasd;fjl THE END</option> </select> </div> </div>
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 .select { height:100px; overflow:scroll; }
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