Comments on: The Downsides of scrollbar-gutter: stable; (and one weird trick) https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-downsides-of-scrollbar-gutter-stable-and-one-weird-trick/ Helping Your Journey to Senior Developer Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:50:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Jon https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-downsides-of-scrollbar-gutter-stable-and-one-weird-trick/#comment-48903 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:50:26 +0000 https://frontendmasters.com/blog/?p=7892#comment-48903 Centering with scrollbar-gutter should be possible using “stable both-sides”, which should reserve equal space on either side of the container. But, annoyingly, it is broken in Chrome. The spaces either side are reserved, but when the actual scrollbar is shown, it doesn’t use them 😫😫😫. There has been an open bug about this for years, but nobody seems to be able to figure out how to fix it:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40064879

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