How to adjust scrollbar's pos to avoid overlaying content?

frain9978 · July 23, 2026, 1:44am

Godot Version

Godot 4.6.2

Question

For example, a VBoxContainer as a child, several buttons in VBox

I want to put the bars away, so it won’t hide the content.

I changed the param “Scrollbar H&V separation” in theme, it did not change anything. Also, i tried scroll mode Reserve, it was the same.

I am confused, why it has no effect? Is there anything I have misunderstood?

mrcdk · July 23, 2026, 12:15pm

As far as I know it’s not possible to do what you want with a ScrollContainer alone. You can add HScrollBar and VScrollBar and use Range.share() to share the internal ScrollContainer scrollbars with them like:

extends Node


@onready var v_scroll_bar: VScrollBar = %VScrollBar
@onready var h_scroll_bar: HScrollBar = %HScrollBar
@onready var scroll_container: ScrollContainer = %ScrollContainer


func _ready() -> void:
	scroll_container.vertical_scroll_mode = ScrollContainer.SCROLL_MODE_SHOW_NEVER
	scroll_container.horizontal_scroll_mode = ScrollContainer.SCROLL_MODE_SHOW_NEVER
	scroll_container.get_v_scroll_bar().share(v_scroll_bar)
	scroll_container.get_h_scroll_bar().share(h_scroll_bar)