jQuery scrolling UL with hidden overflow
- by papermate
I have a UL with LI's set to display horizontally. The UL has a fixed width and it's set to hide the overflow. This is so I can display my images, which are to be used in a gallery, neatly. It works and looks nice.
I want to, however, use jQuery to scroll the contents of the UL rather than set the overflow property to auto and be presented with those ugly scroll bars. I recycled some code I used to do the same thing a few weeks back but, back then, I was doing it in DIV's. Much easier, apparently.
$('.gallery_container span').hover(
function()
{
if ($(this).attr('class') == 'up')
direction = '-=';
else
direction = '+=';
var divOffset = $('ul.gallery').offset().top;
$('ul.gallery').animate({scrollTop: direction + divOffset}, 5000);
},
function()
{
$('ul.gallery').stop();
});
I saw a site that says the scrollTop property can be applied to UL's. So I'm not sure what exactly is causing this not to work.
Any ideas?
EDIT: Found what was causing it to not work at all but not it scrolls vertically - Kind of expected that. Is there any way to scroll it horizontally?