'disabling horizontal scroll on an iPhone website

I am developing an iPhone version of a Wordpress driven website and I was wondering if there's any method to disable horizontal scrolling when the website is open in Safari for iPhone. Right now, I am half way through the development and just to check if I could disable horizontal scrolling, I have hidden any of the elements which were exceeding the screen width but still I can scroll horizontally to the right. I tried putting the following code inside the <style> tags in the <head> but that didn't help:

body { overflow-x: hidden; }

I have put the following <meta> code inside the head file to echo if the user is viewing the website from an iPhone but it only disables user-pinching i.e. you cannot zoom in and zoom out by pinching the screen.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">

I am currently using an iPhone 4 to check the website and the website can be accessed by going to this link: http://ignoremusic.com. Looking forward to a solution from you guys, thanks.

SOLUTION: As suggested by @Riskbreaker, there were a few elements which were exceeding the width of ~312px which is why I could still swipe to the left and after adjusting the width of all such elements, I disabled horizontal swipe. One thing which I learned is that hiding overflow-x doesn't help in the case of an iPhone/iPad, you have to reduce the width of all the elements to that of the width of your screen otherwise you'll still be able to swipe horizontally.

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Solution 1:[1]

I know I am a little late to the party, but I was having this same issue and solved it by adding:

body, html{
    overflow-x: hidden;
}

Hopefully this will help someone else!

Solution 2:[2]

I was having the same issue with a mobile menu positioned outside the viewport area. overflow-x: hidden solved in Android phones, but not in iPhones. I solved by changing 'absolute' to 'fixed' position to the menu:

body { overflow-x: hidden; }    
nav { position: absolute; width: 300px; right: -300px; }

to:

body { overflow-x: hidden; }    
nav { position: fixed; width: 300px; right: -300px; }

Hope it helps.

Solution 3:[3]

For me this fixed the issue as well:

html {
    overflow-x: hidden;
    max-width: 100vw;
}

By the max width the screen seems to be fixed.

Solution 4:[4]

I recently had the same problem but none of the other answers worked for me. In recent versions of Safari (at least desktop) you have to set the position to relative as well.

body, html {
  position: relative;
  overflow: hidden;
}

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