# Thoughts about UX, scrolling horizontally, no scrollbar

**URL:** <https://forum.xojo.com/t/thoughts-about-ux-scrolling-horizontally-no-scrollbar/88010>\
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**Created:** [April 4, 2026, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/thoughts-about-ux-scrolling-horizontally-no-scrollbar/88010 "2026-04-04T08:00:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Helge\_Tjelta](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/helge_tjelta/32/193_2.png) [@Helge\_Tjelta](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Helge_Tjelta)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/thoughts-about-ux-scrolling-horizontally-no-scrollbar/88010/1 "2026-04-04T08:00:23Z")

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I’m wondering what would be the best option for horizontal scrolling. Default on MacOS the scrollbars are off. I normally have them on, because I’m tablet user, and needs to have them.

But when not on, I kinda find the UX to be a little confusing. If I have a mouse with scroolbar function, like swipe left and right, I get it to work, but swiping the wrong direction when no more space is left to scroll, I end up on the previous web-page, and that is not the thing I want.

Have a look at the picture, and imagine the scrollbar gone, how would you give the user the clearest way of scrolling. In this example, which is a mockup for a media planning tool. (to finally get rid of separate excel files…) the edge can be quite far away, like a year of planning… so how to tell, how to scroll…

I’m very thankful for every thought of this. 🙂

 ![Skjermbilde 2026-04-04 kl. 09.54.26](https://forum.xojo.com/uploads/default/original/3X/4/3/430aac7a8f262999739879264d88117ff7ffed2d.png)

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**Author:** ![Beatrix\_Willius](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/beatrix_willius/32/282_2.png) [@Beatrix\_Willius](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Beatrix_Willius)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 3:41am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/thoughts-about-ux-scrolling-horizontally-no-scrollbar/88010/2 "2026-04-05T03:41:35Z")

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You have to show the user that there is more information to the left or the right.

In the tour of my app I made those arrow like affordances to show that there is more text when the scrollbar is hidden:

 ![Screenshot 2026-04-05 at 05.38.07](https://forum.xojo.com/uploads/default/original/3X/b/0/b0342410130a65918f71d8f2ecaae0445053016f.jpeg)

The autohiding scrollbar is one of the stupidest ideas from Apple ever.

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**Author:** ![MarkusR](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/markusr/32/685_2.png) [@MarkusR](https://forum.xojo.com/u/MarkusR)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/thoughts-about-ux-scrolling-horizontally-no-scrollbar/88010/3 "2026-04-05T10:59:09Z")

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> [@Helge\_Tjelta](#):
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> the edge can be quite far away, like a year of planning… so how to tell,

some apps made a mini map to slide a view port.  
the question is do the use need the whole year or maybe few month or a week in sight.