No horizontal scroll when html mail is too wide

mbjboon82 commented

2026-10-04 14:30:29 +00:00

Extra note:
Clicking the button "get the source" on https://ihasmail.org/ brought me to Github.
I posted this issue on Github before realizing i was on Github instead of here.

A simple one (i hope) but i can't get it right with custom css.

Many companies have some sort of minimum of fixed width in their html e-mail.
The example i sended has < table width="800" > for example.
For some reason there is no horizontal scroll in the ihasmail message body?
On a computer it is not much of a problem but on the phone i really miss the ability to swipe the message body to the left/right (so a horizontal scroll).

Extra note: Clicking the button "get the source" on https://ihasmail.org/ brought me to Github. I posted this issue on Github before realizing i was on Github instead of here. --------------------------------------------- A simple one (i hope) but i can't get it right with custom css. Many companies have some sort of minimum of fixed width in their html e-mail. The example i sended has < table width="800" > for example. For some reason there is no horizontal scroll in the ihasmail message body? On a computer it is not much of a problem but on the phone i really miss the ability to swipe the message body to the left/right (so a horizontal scroll).

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jcoffey-dev added the bug label 2026-10-05 03:10:09 +00:00

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2026-10-05 03:33:32 +00:00

Let mail wider than the pane scroll sideways

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2026-10-05 03:33:33 +00:00

Let mail wider than the pane scroll sideways #31

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2026-10-05 03:48:38 +00:00

jcoffey-dev commented

2026-10-05 03:54:54 +00:00

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Thanks for reporting this, @mbjboon82!

Fixed in #31. Mail built wider than the reading pane now scrolls sideways instead of being cut off, so on a phone you can swipe across a fixed-width newsletter. Mail that fits shows no scrollbar.

It will be in the next release.

Thanks for reporting this, @mbjboon82! Fixed in #31. Mail built wider than the reading pane now scrolls sideways instead of being cut off, so on a phone you can swipe across a fixed-width newsletter. Mail that fits shows no scrollbar. It will be in the next release.

mbjboon82 commented

2026-10-05 23:17:35 +00:00

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Thnx again, it works like a charm!
Works great on a phone.

The sheer speed of you fixing bugs is frightening :-)

This bug is closed but i'm wondering:
Is it hard to make the content of the reading pane zoomable?
So i can also zoom out the mail that is too wide on my phone.
Perhaps with touch-action: pinch-zoom; ?

I have no experience with that so i don't know if this opens a Pandora's box...

Thnx again, it works like a charm! Works great on a phone. The sheer speed of you fixing bugs is frightening :-) This bug is closed but i'm wondering: Is it hard to make the content of the reading pane zoomable? So i can also zoom out the mail that is too wide on my phone. Perhaps with touch-action: pinch-zoom; ? I have no experience with that so i don't know if this opens a Pandora's box...

jcoffey-dev commented

2026-10-05 23:22:04 +00:00

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On mobile it already is zoomable with a pinch to zoom, I actually use it everyday. I have the webmail client installed as a PWA on both my phone and my tablet. On bug squashing speed, I have a really nice test harness that I can iterate through by recreating the reported issue and then breaking it until it's fixed.

No horizontal scroll when html mail is too wide #24