Setting the colors of the scrollbars

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Jorg Matter - 26 Sep 2004 15:01 GMT

Hello

I should like to define the colors of the scrollbars for divs with overflows
set to auto. I have a design with black background and white text. Now the
scrollbars do not look very nice and I should like to have them some sort of
dark grey or so. Where and how do I define these colors?

Jörg

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Traveller ® - 26 Sep 2004 15:12 GMT

>Hello
>
>I should like to define the colors of the scrollbars for divs with overflows
>set to auto. I have a design with black background and white text. Now the
>scrollbars do not look very nice and I should like to have them some sort of
>dark grey or so. Where and how do I define these colors?

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C A Upsdell - 26 Sep 2004 17:37 GMT

> Hello
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> dark grey or so. Where and how do I define these colors?

http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/res_css.htm#a04

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Brian - 26 Sep 2004 18:59 GMT

> I should like to define the colors of the scrollbars for divs with
> overflows set to auto.

Scrollbars are part of the browser chrome, outside of the scope of css
(or any www technology). You can use Microsoft proprietary code that
will work only in Internet Explorer for Windows.

> Where and how do I define these colors?

It would be much better if you stop wanting that.

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jake - 26 Sep 2004 23:35 GMT

>> I should like to define the colors of the scrollbars for divs with
>> overflows set to auto.
>
>Scrollbars are part of the browser chrome, outside of the scope of css
>(or any www technology). You can use Microsoft proprietary code that
>will work only in Internet Explorer for Windows.

Which may well be greater than 90% of the OP's audience.

>> Where and how do I define these colors?
>
>It would be much better if you stop wanting that.

Not necessarily. It's one of those 'design decisions' that the author
has to take, win or lose.

regards.

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Brian - 27 Sep 2004 19:15 GMT

> Brian writes
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> Which may well be greater than 90% of the OP's audience.

Or quite a bit less, though I don't see how that changes what I wrote.
(Note Chris Paeper's addendum, though.)

>>> Where and how do I define these colors?
>>
>> It would be much better if you stop wanting that.
>
> Not necessarily. It's one of those 'design decisions' that the author
> has to take, win or lose.

Sort of like font-size: 8px; is a "design decision" (I'm quoting you,
but I'm not sure why you put quotes around that phrase). Or the "design
decision" to use width: 20px for a <p> element. Or light grey on white.

In case you didn't get the memo, we discuss authoring in ciwa*, and it
is hardly inappropriate to point out bad authoring techniques.

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kchayka - 26 Sep 2004 20:42 GMT

> I should like to define the colors of the scrollbars

<URL:http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20021125.html>

Near the end, under the heading "Object-Oriented GUI Design":

"One particular usability problem is worth emphasizing: in several
applications, users missed many of the options because of nonstandard
scrollbars."

The moral is: just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

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