Pesky Empty Scrollbar

I’ve been working on a sort of landing page that is really an absolutely positioned element that takes up the entire width and height of the page. Because of the content underneath this element, the scrollbar is present. I’ve tried setting the overflow property to hidden, and only the scrollbar tracker disappears, leaving behind an empty scrollbar. I’ve been searching for a fix, but I haven’t come across anyone who has had the same issue.

Do you have your code somewhere (GitHub, CodePen)?

I can’t really show my code because it’s part of a company’s private repo and I can’t share it as part of an nda. But I can show an image of the landing page. Hopefully that will help. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7l2qMHG0Iz4WWQ0allnWi1fWTBEMHNfeFBUQlVVLTVQaFZv/view?usp=sharing

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