ScrollBar Color

[Pengwin]

Is there any way I can change my scroll bar color??Also, I have a cool scrollbar on my FireFox Browser that came with a skin. I want to put that on my site. IS there any way I can do any of those questions?

[Jona]

You can only color the scrollbar of your browser in Internet Explorer (and that can be disabled). My preference is for web sites not to change the browser chrome (including the scrollbar) — I like to have control over the way my browser looks. In any case, you can’t use images for scrollbars without a lot of major JavaScript hacking. I think I saw this somewhere, but I’m not exactly sure. You might try searching Google for something along the lines of “javascript image scrollbar.” Good luck!

[Pengwin]

Thanks! That is encouraging me to not try so hard I wet my pants over it lol

[MaGiC_MaN]

Ya, that is true, but in my oppinion it'd be nice to have the script. Just so you got it, might be a time where you designing for someone and they want a custom scroll bar(you never know)! It's such an easy little code! (CSS)

Here it is:

[Ness_du_Frat]

BTW, colored scrollbar also work in Opera *says the Opera fan-girl*
Personnaly, I don't mind having my scrollbar colored, much less than having blinking stuff all over the screen.
Some design look ugly with a gray scrollbar in them ( mine, for example )
I hope it will be in the next css declaration... ( one can always hope, hmm ? ) :D

[Jona]

I doubt that highly, Ness. A couple of reasons. One, and this is probably the most obvious, it’s not in the CSS 3 Working Draft — the idea has been around since IE5, so I’m sure the W3C is aware of it, but it looks like they’ve chosen not to add that to the specification; two, coloring the scrollbar is impractical — there’s no real need for this functionality to be available.

Still, I’m sure you could write a Firefox extension to permit the use of scrollbar colors (and even images)...

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

Some design look ugly with a gray scrollbar in them ( mine, for example )

yeah, i agree about that!
Basically, i think that one should have full control on how anything inside the browser window appears, for exemple for a division tag with the overflow property set to scroll/auto and a scrollbar appears.
But i do not think that the browser scrollbar should be colored, as Jona said, i also think that it's a part of the browser, and i wouldn't want "webdesigners" with no taste at all to mess with it

[Ness_du_Frat]

yeah, i agree about that!
Basically, i think that one should have full control on how anything inside the browser window appears, for exemple for a division tag with the overflow property set to scroll/auto and a scrollbar appears.
But i do not think that the browser scrollbar should be colored, as Jona said, i also think that it's a part of the browser, and i wouldn't want "webdesigners" with no taste at all to mess with it
yeah, I know what you mean, but I think I have enough taste to know if it's an improvement or not to color the scrollbar on my own sites.
But still, I understand very well that some people don't like it.
LCF, have you had a look at my site on IE ? The scrollbar are "part" of the design...

[Jona]

Hmm, maybe one thing that constitutes a good designer (or perhaps just a really good one?) is the fact that he doesn’t need to color the scrollbars in order for his site to look good? Just a thought.

[Ness_du_Frat]

Hmm, maybe one thing that constitutes a good designer (or perhaps just a really good one?) is the fact that he doesn’t need to color the scrollbars in order for his site to look good? Just a thought.
lol !
Nasty thought, actually...
My site looks good ( to me at least ) even if the scrollbars are gray, but, it does look better if the scrollbars are in the same color scheme as the rest of the site.
Still, I always use FF, so I have my scrollbars gray all the time, and I'm not disturbed at all.
But it does look good on IE too.. :)

Jona and Ness, the eternal scrollbar war... :p :D

[Jona]

Well, I can’t say it’s entirely wrong; like I said, it’s not my preference, but you are making use of a proprietary technology (yet the page still “works” in other browsers). It’s kind of like writing a JavaScript — it only works in user agents with JavaScript enabled, and those user agents that haven’t got it enabled simply get a different results (but the important thing is that no essential functionality is lost). Make sense?

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

yeah, no one will loose accessibility to your site if your scrollbar is colored, lol, but if you really put nasty colors, you might just loose your visitors! ;)

what site are you talking about, Ness?
You just have so many...and you want me to watch it in IE...oh crap, where is that thing, oh there in the corner, covered with dust! :P

[Ness_du_Frat]

you can have a look at both of them...
Les Enfants de l'Ô (http://enfantsdelo.free.fr/map.php)
NesS's World (http://nesssworld.free.fr)
( et en plus j'ai updaté NW avec plein de machins rigolos, rubrique divers... )

[Ness_du_Frat]

Well, I can’t say it’s entirely wrong; like I said, it’s not my preference, but you are making use of a proprietary technology (yet the page still “works” in other browsers). It’s kind of like writing a JavaScript — it only works in user agents with JavaScript enabled, and those user agents that haven’t got it enabled simply get a different results (but the important thing is that no essential functionality is lost). Make sense?
It does make sense !
That's exactly how I see things...
I mean, my site is really normal with gray scrollbars, too. It's not like it's ugly ( or maybe it's ugly, but certainly not because of the scrollbars ) or unaccessible... :)

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

yeah, the scrollbar is not bad

[Ness_du_Frat]

yeah, the scrollbar is not bad
:D I'm lucky you're here, LCF !!!!