Could you please help me add a scrollbar to a shortlist? I’d like to prevent the elements from extending beyond the container as demonstrated in the attached photo.
Set a fixed height or set a max height and enable vertical scrolling, this should solve the issue
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Lists cannot / should not scroll within a container in a mobile app, which is why this is not possible to do with the short list. Apps that want to have this user experience - like netflix on their home screen, for example - will use horizontal lists to organize that content so users can swipe l/r to see the content
You can give our plugin a try, I’m not sure atm whether it allows scrolling but we can add it in it that is not the case.
I’m unable to check now as I’m on my mobile.
I see, I wasn’t aware of that. If you don’t mind me asking, could you please tell me why that is? I’m just curious to understand.
Thank you very much, I will give it some thought.
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Its a poor ux because of the limited size of the screen and the general interaction pattern. So if you already have to scroll up and down to see content on the screen, but then based on where you place your finger to scroll, you might also move a different part of the screen while still scrolling in the same direction, it just creates an awkward situation. In addition, imagine if there wasn’t enough space above and below the scrolling container, so a user could get stuck on the scrolling container and not be able to scroll the screen anymore
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Okay perfect, thank you for your response and quick reply.
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Then how would you do it? Imagine you have a list of users in a group. You keep adding to that group. You don’t want those people to go horizontal; you don’t need that much information about them. You basically just need a name and the list.
Here is my use case which I have seen on many apps. You have Multiple Groups. Click into that Group view (scrolling vert list) [Add, delete, etc] then you want to chat to THAT group. Well the Chat is a Verticle Scroll element. In this case you force them into an entirely new view, instead of ckeeping them on the same view. Thoughts?
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@timlcooley you should use the vertical list view type for this, not the short list
Correct, it is a lot more natural on mobile to have simple views that users navigate between (or layer with sheets and modals) rather than fewer more complex views
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