# Menu doesn't scroll - page scrolls instead **URL:** \ **Category:** Elements\ **Created:** [April 19, 2025, 5:34am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/menu-doesnt-scroll-page-scrolls-instead/47226 "2025-04-19T05:34:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![izzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c2a13f/32.png) [@izzy](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/izzy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 5:34am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/menu-doesnt-scroll-page-scrolls-instead/47226/1 "2025-04-19T05:34:51Z")
Hey! I’ve got a navbar with a lot of subpages, and now it’s too tall for the screen (phone). When I try to scroll, the page behind scrolls but the menu itself doesn’t. I tried messing with `overflow` and `position`, but no luck so far. Anyone know how to make the menu scroll properly, and freeze the page behind? (Same thing happens when I click an image in gallery - the image opens, but scrolling affects the background page) Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Godber](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/godber/32/26521_2.png) [@Godber](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Godber)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 6:15am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/menu-doesnt-scroll-page-scrolls-instead/47226/2 "2025-04-19T06:15:46Z")
as far as the image gallery if an image is open in the gallery what do you expect to scroll to??? if the menu is a sticky one then turn that off but the mouse pointer must remain over the menu for it to scroll…but if you have that many sub pages personally id think of a little bit of re design …I dont think ive been to many site where the menu items scroll off the bottom of a page. ---
**Author:** ![izzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c2a13f/32.png) [@izzy](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/izzy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 6:42am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/menu-doesnt-scroll-page-scrolls-instead/47226/3 "2025-04-19T06:42:08Z")
Yeah, with the image gallery, I don’t want the image itself to scroll — I just want the background to stay still when the image overlay is open. Right now, if you scroll, the whole page behind the image moves, which feels kinda weird ---
**Author:** ![Godber](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/godber/32/26521_2.png) [@Godber](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Godber)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/menu-doesnt-scroll-page-scrolls-instead/47226/4 "2025-04-19T06:49:11Z")
why do you wanna scroll if your viewing a gallery?? you use the arrows to go through the images. ---
**Author:** ![izzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c2a13f/32.png) [@izzy](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/izzy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 7:06am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/menu-doesnt-scroll-page-scrolls-instead/47226/5 "2025-04-19T07:06:48Z")
I’m not trying to scroll _through_ the gallery. The issue is that while a gallery image is open, if the user accidentally scrolls (like with a touchpad or mouse wheel), the background page moves. Then when they close the image, they’re no longer in the same spot on the page. I’m just trying to prevent accidental movement of the main page. ---
**Author:** ![ben](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ben/32/28488_2.png) [@ben](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ben)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/menu-doesnt-scroll-page-scrolls-instead/47226/6 "2025-04-22T08:01:23Z")
That sounds like a bug, I’ll add a ticket for that and take a look ASAP 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@Roo](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Roo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/menu-doesnt-scroll-page-scrolls-instead/47226/7 "2025-11-21T12:41:28Z")
Hi Ben, I’ve just published an Elements site and I’m having the same problem where I cannot scroll down the mobile menu. Not even the drop-down sub menus. Very frustrating as my client assumes it’s me and not the software. Richard. ---
**Author:** ![jbob](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/jbob/32/31581_2.png) [@jbob](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jbob)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/menu-doesnt-scroll-page-scrolls-instead/47226/8 "2025-11-21T12:48:34Z")
Same problem here - on iPhone I have a sub - sub menu and cannot scroll down far enough to reach the end items Menu does not scroll down Limit is 10 items, then they’re unreachable (I do see that there’s can argument that this is too long) > **[Peter Yates, Artist and Architect 1920-1982](https://www.peteryates.co.uk/)** > > Peter Yates 19 July 1920 – 16 November 1982, was a British born artist and architect. He was a founder partner of the architectural company Ryder and Yates. ---
**Author:** ![upssjw](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/upssjw/32/26063_2.png) [@upssjw](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/upssjw)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/menu-doesnt-scroll-page-scrolls-instead/47226/9 "2025-11-21T12:56:13Z")
> [@Mobil Menu Scrolling?](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/mobil-menu-scrolling/48241): > > @dan It seems if a mobile menu has more content than can be displayed, the menu should be able to scroll. I just found out that this is not the case, so if you are looking at my sites on a phone in landscape mode you will not be able to access the items at the bottom of the menu. Is this a bug? If it is not a bug how do we support scrolling? I played around with this and eventually got it to work but I don’t know exactly what I did to get it working. As far as I can tell I just changed the WI… ---
**Author:** ![upssjw](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/upssjw/32/26063_2.png) [@upssjw](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/upssjw)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/menu-doesnt-scroll-page-scrolls-instead/47226/10 "2025-11-21T13:04:09Z")
Read to the end of the thread