Hopefully I missed something otherwise I cannot understand how this is still not supported.
I have this simple container as the right section of my layout. This is the container I want a vertical scrollbar on, not on any of the child containers, I want my scrollbar on this right vertical container.
Now in this vertical container, I have a child cards container which displays fixed size cards with wrap enabled and flexible height enabled.
The problem is, with flexible height enabled, the cards container will take the available height but not more, which means if I have more than 4 cards, the cards container will be considered overflowing, but NOT the parent on which I want the scrollbar. Coming from HTML/CSS, I would expect :
- The Vertical Overflow property to have a "Show" value available just like CSS, that way the shown overflow could be transferred back to the parent container which could detect overflow and show a scrollbar if desired
- Some kind of auto height property on the cards container which could also enable the parent right container to detect overflow and show a scrollbar if desired
Right now, the only work arounds I see are:
- Setting the Vertical Overflow property of the cards container to Scroll, but this will put a scroll on the cards container which makes no sense in terms of user experience
- Disabling flexible height on the cards container and setting an explicit height instead, but I have to use complex formulas to calculate the height the container should have based on the amount of cards and their individual height.
What is the point of having "responsive" containers that can "wrap" items, if it can't have a dynamic height or transfer it's vertical overflow to it's parent? Except having scrollbars on every containers this doesn't make sens, I should be able to either have a container with auto-height OR a the option the "show" the overflow instead of hide or scroll...
Below is the result I am looking for, I managed to this by forcing an explicit height to the cards container, using complex formulas to calculate the required height based on the amount of cards and the available width etc...But I have a hard time imagining there isn't a simple way to do this!
