Show or Hide Scrollbar of React Native ScrollView

Posted By: Harish

It's a default behavior to show a scrollbar for a scrollable list. With the help of a scrollbar, we can see how much we scrolled from the top of the list.

But in some instances, we may not need a scrollbar while scrolling. In those situations, we can use showsHorizontalScrollIndicator or showsVerticalScrollIndicator props based on the list orientation.

These props accept boolean values and default value is true. If false, the scrollbar will hide while scrolling.

Let's see what these props will do with an example.

Create A New Project

Create a new react-native project by using npx. Check documentation for creating a new react native project.

npx react-native@latest init ScrollViewRN

Example Implementation

We will create a simple vertical scrollview with color blocks as content and show/hide scrollbar while scrolling.

Import and add ScrollView with few scrollable color blocks.

//App.tsx
...
import { View, ScrollView } from 'react-native';
...
<ScrollView
  contentContainerStyle={styles.content_container}
>
  {
    colors
      .map((color: string) => {
        return (
          <View
            key={color}
            style={[
              styles.view,
              {
                backgroundColor: color
              }
            ]}
          >
          </View>
        )
      })
  }
</ScrollView>
...

If we run the app,

#for Android
npx react-native run-android

#for ios
npx react-native run-ios

We will see a few scrollable color blocks. If you scroll, you will see a light scrollbar at the right side of the list.

Now add showsVerticalScrollIndicator={false} to scrollview and try to scroll now.

...
<ScrollView
  ...
  showsVerticalScrollIndicator={false}
>
...
</ScrollView>
...

You will find that the scrollbar is hidden.

If the list is oriented horizontally, use showsHorizontalScrollIndicator={false} for the scrollview.

Complete code of our example,

//App.tsx
import React from "react";
import {
  Text,
  StyleSheet,
  SafeAreaView,
  StatusBar,
  View,
  ScrollView,
} from "react-native";

const colors = [
  'orange',
  'green',
  'blue',
  'maroon',
  'violet',
  'darkorange',
  'gold',
  'darkgreen',
  'aquamarine',
  'cadetblue'
];

export default function App() {
  return (
    <SafeAreaView style={{ flex: 1, backgroundColor: 'white' }}>
      <StatusBar
        barStyle="dark-content"
      />
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <Text style={styles.text}>
          ifelsething.com
        </Text>
        <Text style={styles.text}>
          hide/show scrollbars
        </Text>
        <ScrollView
          //horizontal (for horizontal list)
          //showsHorizontalScrollIndicator={false} (for horizontal list)
          showsVerticalScrollIndicator={false}
          contentContainerStyle={styles.content_container}
        >
          {
            colors
              .map((color: string) => {
                return (
                  <View
                    key={color}
                    style={[
                      styles.view,
                      {
                        backgroundColor: color
                      }
                    ]}
                  >
                  </View>
                )
              })
          }

        </ScrollView>
      </View>
    </SafeAreaView>
  );
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    margin: 10,
    gap: 20
  },
  text: {
    fontSize: 15,
    color: 'black',
    fontStyle: 'italic'
  },
  content_container: {
    gap: 10
  },
  view: {
    width: '100%',
    height: 200,
    borderRadius: 10
  }
});

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