Div with horizontal scrolling only

For horizontal scroll, keep these two properties in mind:

overflow-x:scroll;
white-space: nowrap;

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HTML

<p>overflow:scroll</p>
<div class="scroll">You can use the overflow property when you want to have better   control of the layout. The default value is visible.You can use the overflow property when you want     to have better control of the layout. The default value is visible.</div>

CSS

div.scroll
{
background-color:#00FFFF;
height:40px;
overflow-x:scroll;
white-space: nowrap;
}

The solution is fairly straight forward. To ensure that we don't impact the width of the cells in the table, we'll turn off white-space. To ensure we get a horizontal scroll bar, we'll turn on overflow-x. And that's pretty much it:

.container {
    width: 30em;
    overflow-x: auto;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

You can see the end-result here, or in the animation below. If the table determines the height of your container, you should not need to explicitly set overflow-y to hidden. But understand that is also an option.

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overflow-x: scroll;
overflow-y: hidden;

EDIT:

It works for me:

<div style='overflow-x:scroll;overflow-y:hidden;width:250px;height:200px'>
    <div style='width:400px;height:250px'></div>
</div>

I couldn't get the selected answer to work but after a bit of research, I found that the horizontal scrolling div must have white-space: nowrap in the css.

Here's complete working code:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Something</title>
    <style type="text/css">
        #scrolly{
            width: 1000px;
            height: 190px;
            overflow: auto;
            overflow-y: hidden;
            margin: 0 auto;
            white-space: nowrap
        }

        img{
            width: 300px;
            height: 150px;
            margin: 20px 10px;
            display: inline;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div id='scrolly'>
        <img src='img/car.jpg'></img>
        <img src='img/car.jpg'></img>
        <img src='img/car.jpg'></img>
        <img src='img/car.jpg'></img>
        <img src='img/car.jpg'></img>
        <img src='img/car.jpg'></img>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

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