Removing the inactive scroll bar in page viewer web parts

This has been posted before, but there are still lots of references to this not being possible…


When using a page viewer web part to display a target page, the scroll bars can be removed by making the web part the same size or larger. However often there is a greyed out/inactive scroll bar still visible on the right hand side.

To remove the inactive scroll bar modify your target page and change any scoll=”yes” in favour of scroll=”no”.

Note if you are targeting a sharepoint page this usually requires a change to the master page too.

This usually sorts out IE. Firefox also wants you to add the following before it will not show the inactive scroll bar.

style="overflow: visible;height:176px"
where 176 is the height of your page content.