One problem with that is that it doesn't seem to work for touch.    You can push them out of view... See the Pen EjbXda by osublake (@osublake) on CodePen   If you know the height of the container, you can hide them with nesting. http://jsfiddle.net/OSUblake/q6kqdroq/1/   Not sure if other browsers support this yet, but you can hide them with css in webkit. ::-webkit-scrollbar { display: none; }