Scroll bar below fixed header with Vuetify + Electron - vuejs2

Question

I am using Vuetify and Electron to make an app to help me with certain tasks at my job. I have disable the browserWindow frame and made my header the draggable area with a button to close the window. I am using the electron vuetify template
vue init vuetifyjs/electron
My problem is the scrollbar reaches all the way to the top but I would like it below my fixed header.
I have tried playing with overflow properties on the html, body, app div, and content div tags but i have not been successful.
How would I accomplish this?

Answer 1

This is purely a CSS question really as you can see this behaviour in the browser too with similar layouts. The easiest way to fix this is using a flex layout:
HTML:
<div class="container">
<div class="titlebar"></div>
<div class="content">
<h1>So much content we scroll</h1>
<h1>So much content we scroll</h1>
<!-- etc -->
</div>
</div>
CSS:
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
.container {
width: 100vw;
height: 100vh;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.titlebar {
background-color: blue;
height: 35px;
flex-shrink: 0;
}
.content {
flex-grow: 1;
overflow-x: auto;
}
Check out this out in this CodePen

Answer 2

I'd like to offer a Vuetify specific answer for this question, this should apply whether or not Electron is involved.
Vuetify's default styles make this a bit more difficult than a simple CSS solution can give you, especially when the layout gets more complex.
For this example I'm using the complex layout from Vuetify's pre-defined themes here
Vuetify ships with an overflow-y: scroll on the html element so the first step is adding an override for this.
html {
overflow: hidden;
}
This will get rid of the bar on the right side that spans the whole height of the app.
Next you will want to set your v-content area as the scrollable area. There are a few gotchas to watch out for when you're setting this area:
Display flex is already declared
Vuetify sets padding in the style attribute so you'll need to override depending on your case
You'll need a margin the height of your header(only matters if you're changing header height from 64px)
You'll need to remove the header height from the height of the content container using calc(Same as above)
If you have a nav drawer on the right side you'll need to bind a class to take care of this.
My CSS for v-content looks like this, you will need an important to override the padding since it is set by Vuetify through style binding:
main.v-content {
width: 100vw;
height: calc(100vh - 64px);
flex-direction: column;
overflow: scroll;
margin-top: 64px;
padding-top: 0 !important;
}
I also have a class bound to the state of the temporary right drawer on the v-content tag in the template, this makes sure that the scroll bar doesn't disappear underneath the right nav drawer when it's open:
<v-content :class="{ draweropen: drawerRight }">
And the CSS for that bound class, once again you'll need an important to remove the default right padding Vuetify puts on v-content when the drawer is open:
.draweropen {
width: calc(100vw - 300px) !important;
padding-right: 0 !important;
}
You can optionally set the flex-direction to column-reverse if your content is bottom loaded like a chat which is what I'm doing in this CodePen Example

Answer 3

I built a little component that wraps the v-main and moves the scrollbar to the main container instead of the default (the entire html).
Simply replace v-main with this and you're done.
<template>
<v-main class="my-main">
<div class="my-main__scroll-container">
<slot />
</div>
</v-main>
</template>
<script>
export default {
mounted: function() {
let elHtml = document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0]
elHtml.style.overflowY = 'hidden'
},
destroyed: function() {
let elHtml = document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0]
elHtml.style.overflowY = null
},
}
</script>
<style>
.my-main
height: 100vh
.my-main__scroll-container
height: 100%
overflow: auto
</style>