The Fastest Way to Find The Element That Creates a Horizontal Scrollbar on My Web page

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Krishna Priya
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The Fastest Way to Find The Element That Creates a Horizontal Scrollbar on My Web page

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I am learning website development and stuck at a point. After completing the webpage, I can see a horrizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the window. I am not sure why this issue. Is there any method to find the div or element that is breaking my web design and causing this horizontal scrollbar?
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Re: The Fastest Way to Find The Element That Creates a Horizontal Scrollbar on My Web page

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You can use the inspect feature in Chrome. It is easy and very straightforward.
Krishna Priya
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Re: The Fastest Way to Find The Element That Creates a Horrizontal Scrollbar on My Web page

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Sorry for the late reply. I was busy with my studies and now backs to my web development program. Thanks Yashika for the hint, but it does not help. I do not know why there is a scroll bar appearing at the horrizontal bottom. Any help?
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Re: The Fastest Way to Find The Element That Creates a Horrizontal Scrollbar on My Web page

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Krishna Priya wrote: I do not know why there is a scroll bar appearing at the horrizontal bottom. Any help?
You can check which element is breaking out the layout, can't you?
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Re: The Fastest Way to Find The Element That Creates a Horrizontal Scrollbar on My Web page

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No Joshy, I cannot find the element that breaks the layout. I tried, but no clue.
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Re: The Fastest Way to Find The Element That Creates a Horrizontal Scrollbar on My Web page

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Why don't you colour each elements. It will be easy to see which element is breaking the layout.
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Re: The Fastest Way to Find The Element That Creates a Horizontal Scrollbar on My Web page

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A nice suggestion Sanal Mohan. I will give background colours to the elements. So, I can visually see which element breaks out the layout and causes the horizontal scrollbar.
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Good suggestion sanal.
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Visually Identify the DIV Element Breaking the Website Responsive Layout

Post by Alex George »

Sanal Mohan presented a nice idea, but I have a better one. Instead of giving background colors to elements, I prefer to draw a borderline. Just add this piece of code at the beginning of your CSS file.

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* {
  outline: 1px solid #000 !important;
}
Explanation: This new CSS instruction draws a black color borderline for all elements. So that, you can visually identify which element breaks the alignment and creates the horizontal scrollbar.
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