Dawn theme horizontal scroll - urgent

Topic summary

A user encountered a horizontal scroll issue on their Shopify store using the Dawn theme, causing unwanted side-to-side scrolling on pages.

Problem:

  • Horizontal overflow appearing across the website
  • Affecting overall user experience and layout

Solution Provided:

  • Add CSS code to the base.css file to hide horizontal overflow
  • Navigate to: Shopify Admin → Online Store → Edit Code → base.css
  • Insert body { overflow-x: hidden !important; } at the end of the file

Status:

  • Solution appears to have resolved the issue based on provided screenshot results
  • The fix uses CSS to prevent horizontal scrolling at the body level
Summarized with AI on October 28. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

I’m using dawn theme in that there is a horizontal scroll in website, I’ll attach the reference image and website link .Please help me to overcome the issue.

Website : https://the-rugged.com/

password: rugged

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In order to fix the overflow issue you need to paste the following code in the end of base.css file.

Here is how you can find the base.css file. Go to Shopify Admin >> Online Store >> Edit Code >> base.css

body {
    overflow-x: hidden !important;
}

Results:

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