diff --git a/examples/basic_init/scroll_y.html b/examples/basic_init/scroll_y.html
index 2f7dce5c..da6a6ec4 100644
--- a/examples/basic_init/scroll_y.html
+++ b/examples/basic_init/scroll_y.html
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@
 			$(document).ready(function() {
 				$('#example').dataTable( {
 					"sScrollY": "200px",
-					"bPaginate": false
+					"bPaginate": false,
+					"bScrollCollapse": true
 				} );
 			} );
 		</script>
@@ -465,7 +466,8 @@
 			<pre class="brush: js;">$(document).ready(function() {
 	$('#example').dataTable( {
 		"sScrollY": "200px",
-		"bPaginate": false
+		"bPaginate": false,
+		"bScrollCollapse": true
 	} );
 } );</pre>
 			<style type="text/css">
diff --git a/media/js/jquery.dataTables.js b/media/js/jquery.dataTables.js
index 26959a14..4bfaf8d6 100644
--- a/media/js/jquery.dataTables.js
+++ b/media/js/jquery.dataTables.js
@@ -3112,6 +3112,14 @@
 					n.style.width = "";
 				}, nTfootSize.getElementsByTagName('tr') );
 			}
+		
+			// If scroll collapse is enabled, when we put the headers back into the body for sizing, we
+			// will end up forcing the scrollbar to appear, making our measurements wrong for when we
+			// then hide it (end of this function), so add the header height to the body scroller.
+			if ( o.oScroll.bCollapse && o.oScroll.sY !== "" )
+			{
+				nScrollBody.style.height = (nScrollBody.offsetHeight + o.nTHead.offsetHeight)+"px";
+			}
 			
 			/* Size the table as a whole */
 			iSanityWidth = $(o.nTable).outerWidth();
diff --git a/media/src/core/core.scrolling.js b/media/src/core/core.scrolling.js
index b5c82d40..429888c9 100644
--- a/media/src/core/core.scrolling.js
+++ b/media/src/core/core.scrolling.js
@@ -231,6 +231,14 @@ function _fnScrollDraw ( o )
 			n.style.width = "";
 		}, nTfootSize.getElementsByTagName('tr') );
 	}
+
+	// If scroll collapse is enabled, when we put the headers back into the body for sizing, we
+	// will end up forcing the scrollbar to appear, making our measurements wrong for when we
+	// then hide it (end of this function), so add the header height to the body scroller.
+	if ( o.oScroll.bCollapse && o.oScroll.sY !== "" )
+	{
+		nScrollBody.style.height = (nScrollBody.offsetHeight + o.nTHead.offsetHeight)+"px";
+	}
 	
 	/* Size the table as a whole */
 	iSanityWidth = $(o.nTable).outerWidth();