Sorry you're right it's auto not hidden that was a typo.  But why not make 
it visible?

On Sunday, April 13, 2014 5:37:53 AM UTC-4, Paolo Caruccio wrote:
>
> If you mean the view "*appadmin/select/db?query=your query"* actually the 
> table with the resulting rows is wrapped in a div with "overflow:auto".
> Therefore if you have more columns than the width of the browser a 
> horizontal scrollbar will be shown and the table will scroll horizontally. 
> The horizontal scrollbar (that is managed by browser not by web2py) is 
> positioned after the last displayed row but you can scroll the table with 
> arrow keys on the keyboard.
> For the sake of completeness, if the div wrapper had "overflow:hidden" 
> you couldn't see any scrollbar.
>     
>
> Il giorno domenica 13 aprile 2014 03:01:35 UTC+2, User ha scritto:
>>
>> In appadmin, if I query a table that has more columns than the width of 
>> my browser there will be a horizontal scrollbar places on the div 
>> containing the database rows.  I find this annoying because in order to 
>> scroll horizontally I have to go to the bottom of the search results first 
>> to find the horizontal scrollbar and then scroll.
>>
>> If the containing div had overflow: visible then I could use the 
>> browser's horizontal scrollbar which is much more convenient.  My question 
>> is what purpose does having overflow = hidden serve in this context?
>>
>

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