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Add a Scroll Bar to Your Simplebooklet

By default, Simplebooklet moves readers through your content with page-flip animation — the experience that makes a Simplebooklet feel like a real booklet. But sometimes, especially for long-form content like landing pages, FAQs, or product detail pages, a familiar vertical scroll feels more natural. Scroll mode swaps out the page-flip for a smooth, continuous scroll while keeping everything else Simplebooklet does — branded weblink, audience reports, embeds, and access controls all still work exactly the same. This article shows you how to turn it on.

Available on all plans.

When Scroll Mode Makes Sense

Scroll mode is a great fit when your reader would naturally scroll through your content on a regular webpage:

Landing pages — Long-form pages with a linear top-to-bottom read.
FAQs and help pages — Continuous scrolling feels more familiar than flipping.
Product detail pages — When you want the reader to keep going without a break.
Long-form articles or blog-style content — Anywhere the "page" concept gets in the way.

If your content works better as distinct pages — like a magazine, catalog, or lookbook — you're better off sticking with the standard page-flip experience.

How to Turn On Scroll Mode

Open your Dashboard.
On the Simplebooklet you want to enable scroll mode for, click Design.
In the Design Tab, open Settings from the left-hand toolbar.
Find the Choose How Your Simplebooklet Fits The Screen section — it lets you select the scale of your Simplebooklet when it appears for your viewers.
Open the drop-down and choose Set to Width 980.
Click Done to save.

That's it — the vertical scroll bar activates automatically as long as your content is taller than the viewer's visible area. Both single-page and multi-page booklets support scroll mode.

Why "Set to Width 980"?

Scroll mode kicks in when two conditions are met:

Your scale is set to something other than Fit (which auto-sizes the page to the viewer window, meaning nothing needs to scroll).
Your booklet's content height is greater than the visible viewer height — so there's actually something to scroll to.

Set to Width 980 is the setting that reliably meets both conditions for most content. If your booklet doesn't extend beyond the viewer height, no scroll bar appears — because there's nothing to scroll to.

What Stays the Same

Turning on scroll mode doesn't change any of the other things you've set up:

Your weblink stays the same.
Audience reports and analytics keep tracking as usual.
Embeds on your website continue to work — no need to re-paste any code.
Access controls like passwords, lead gates, and paywalls stay in place.
Buttons, hotspots, forms, and other page enhancements work the same way.

What's next?

Now that scroll mode is on:

Updated on: 13/07/2026

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