Title: scroll disabled when sidebar active
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# scroll disabled when sidebar active

 *  [simonthechippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonthechippy/)
 * (@simonthechippy)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scroll-disabled-when-sidebar-active/)
 * Trying to add an always on sidebar. when sidebar is active you cannot scroll 
   the main page.
    test.historyinthemaking.co.uk/dir

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 *  [Scott Smith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottsmith/)
 * (@scottsmith)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scroll-disabled-when-sidebar-active/#post-5329595)
 * What device are you seeing this on?
 *  Thread Starter [simonthechippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonthechippy/)
 * (@simonthechippy)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scroll-disabled-when-sidebar-active/#post-5329600)
 * I’m using the laptop on windows 8 and viewing on ipad same result. I’ve taken
   the sidebar off for now but I was hoping to use it for a slides how or something,
   also it fills out the screen more because decode only uses the middle half of
   the screen without.
 * Simon
 *  Thread Starter [simonthechippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonthechippy/)
 * (@simonthechippy)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scroll-disabled-when-sidebar-active/#post-5329601)
 * In case it matters I’m using Firefox on the laptop and chrome on the ipad

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 * [scroll](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/scroll/)
 * [sidebar](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sidebar/)

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 * Last reply from: [simonthechippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonthechippy/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scroll-disabled-when-sidebar-active/#post-5329601)
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