to show scroll bar or not

[bearhead]

On the website I’m developing, the home page is 100% view height, however, all other pages of the site are longer and require the user to scroll, each page has a menu that is consistent site-wide.

What is worse UX, a grey-ed out scrollbar, or a menu that “jumps” when the scrollbar appears on longer pages?

Are there any alternatives? The home page content does not lend itself to a longer-than-viewport design, nor is that something the client would even approve.

Is it possible to detect the width of the scroll-bar, and apply that as padding or margin to the menu, so it doesn’t appear to jump, when navigating to other pages?

[Paulie_D]

Personally, I just add the scroll bar as a defualt if I think it’s going to be an issue,

[moxieman]

You can actually detect the width of the scrollbar by using calc(100vw - 100%)

Using this width, you can set padding on the element to bump the content to the right when the scrollbars appear.

This will technically result in off-center content, but the jump will be gone.

Check out this pen. http://codepen.io/jeffSWMC/pen/yNBGLq

[Alex]

I don’t think you should be afraid of a scroll bar, but that’s just me.

[josh]

Neither are significant UX issues. I wouldn’t worry too much about it, but my recommendation would be to show the scrollbar.

On another note, how do you know that the content does not lend itself to a longer-than-viewport design? What height range are you accounting for?

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