How can I replace the scrollbar's images using HTML/CSS?
I have:
scrollbar-base-color: #00acee;
scrollbar-dark-shadow-color: #00acee;
scrollbar-track-color: #ffffff;
scrollbar-face-color: #00acee;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #00acee;
scrollbar-highlight-color: #00acee;
scrollbar-3d-light-color: #00acee;
Can I use an image to accomplish the same idea?
No you can't use images in place of the scroll bar. I'll also just mention that changing the colours is very annoying to users and it only works in IE anyway, so just stick with the standard GUI elements.
For webkit based browsers (for a sufficiently new value of "webkit") there are a collection of propriety CSS properties.
No, you can't use an image in the scroll bar. (Also, even changing the color is only supported in IE in non-standard mode.)
The only way to use images in a scroll bar would be not to use the standard scroll bar at all, but implement a replacement scroll bar yourself using DHTML, or find someone who has done that already.
However, you should be a bit restrictive when changing the look of controls that the users are already used to. If you are not careful you may end up confusing people so that they don't even recognise it as a scroll bar at all...
It is not possible to put an image inside the scrollbar. Customizing the scrollbar is not a W3C spec (IE only CSS), but details on what is possible can be found here:
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/scrollbars.html
as far as i know you cant style a scroll bar with an image.
if you want to use jquery, you can do so easily using this jquery plugin:
http://www.kelvinluck.com/assets/jquery/jScrollPane/basic.html
The trick there is to "simulate" a scroll bar using some divs, which you can style any way you want, since they are just regular divs. After that its easy to just use the scrollTop property and scroll events etc (but you dont really need to know how it works to use it)
For MooTools, there's MooScroller.
Steve
jScrollPane (demo)
or
Interface (demo).
Both using jQuery.
Webkit == Safari and Chrome, but Firefox and Opera have plans to implement similar in upcoming releases. The spec is a killer though, so it may not be worth using even if you have the support.
Mootools has quite a few:
Mooscroller (will be
implemented into Mootools -more),
MooScroll (based on
Solutaire's?)
UvumiScroll
MochaUI's
I imagine it is part of Ext UI, and probably JQ's UI library, but have no personal experience there.
One non-library dependent class: http://www.hesido.com/web.php?page=customscrollbar
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Basically I'm looking to shim all modern browser so that the scroll bar acts the same way.
On newer macs the scroll bar hovers over content in webkit, on firefox the scroll takes about 15px of the content area. I'm wondering if anyone has see something that would gets these all to a similar state.
Thanks!
That's the browser's decision, you can't change the size of scrollbars in modern browsers.
What you could do, if it's really important that the scrollbars be the same in all browsers, is use a Javascript/jQuery library like this one or this one... But generally you should just use whatever content area you are given.
I want to use transition effect on hover for IE 8 like in this example:
http://jsfiddle.net/evcL2/10/
According to this site (is working only on ie) that is possible (use trasntion option and fade effect) but I am not able to use it. Can someone help me a little bit with that script, for me is simportant to have that transition on hover only for background color.
Thank you.
IE8 doesn't support CSS3 transitions. You'll have to fake it using JavaScript tweens, or settle for IE9 support. IE8 users don't deserve nice looking websites anyway :-)
But if you're in the awkward position of being tasked with creating IE compatible stuff, take a look at this MSDN introduction to Filters and Transitions. It appears that even the IE specific transition filters require JavaScript to work, so you might as well go with the proper JavaScript solution of using jQuery.animate. With a small plugin it can animate colors. Here's an example on JSFiddle.
For some reason the website you suggested doesn't render properly in my browser. However, I think you may be attacking the problem wrongly. I would use jQuery's $.animate() function for this, as it is very cross browser and can animate gradual changes in many css properties.
How can I make my scroll bar black for a <div>?
Is there anything that will work in Webkit, IE7 to IE9 and Firefox?
You cannot do this in Firefox. Only IE and webkit browsers support modifying the scrollbar.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms531153%28v=vs.85%29.aspx on how to do it in MSIE and http://www.webkit.org/blog/363/styling-scrollbars/ on how to do it in webkit.
You cannot style the scrollbar of the browser. It's not universally supported (although IE did try to implement it).
Also, it's a bad idea to do so from an accessibility perspective. Think of (old) people who cannot see your very slim, almost invisible custom scroll bar or don't know that what you have there is actually a scroll bar.
You can use custom scrollbar plugins in JS like this one. It's all over the place
As Pez Cuckow said:
I imagine that custom scrollbar is implemented in javascript, it looks
very slick and you can't make a browsers scrollbar look that good!
Find an example I just put together for you at:
http://jsfiddle.net/9LHPW/2/ - note check the resources tab as this
includes four external files (3x Js and 1x CSS)
Have a look at this website for a further example (looks like exactly
what you want) with Javascript and jQuery:
http://manos.malihu.gr/tuts/jquery_custom_scrollbar.html
You can find the plugin's home at
http://manos.malihu.gr/jquery-custom-content-scroller
Along with a how to use it section!
I agree you shouldn't tamper with the visibility (I'm looking at you Apple) of the scrollbar of a scrollable region. Sometimes, a box with scrollable text fits just inside the boundaries and there is no visual clue letting a user know that it scrolls thereby confusing the user. Is it really a good idea to prevent the user from being able to use your application? Most likely not, but you can also argue back that your target demographic wont have any problems; an application for extreme inline competition is probably not going to be used by people who aren't able to see very well. However there are accessibility/usability concerns that go beyond visual hinderances; cognitively impaired, or non tech-savvy, individuals might be very good at said aggressive inline and want to compete in your upcoming event but wont be able to because the black-on-black scrollbar looks awesome.
That all said, do what make you happy. That's what I do.
I want to create a special place where I show a picture. It should have scroll bars (both horizontal and vertical) that look like this:
How can I get this look? Can I do it with an iframe? With a div?
Just thought I better add the CSS3 option, although this won't work is some browsers so jQuery is probs your best bet.
Some info on CSS3 scrollbars:
http://css-tricks.com/9130-custom-scrollbars-in-webkit/
Using a jQuery scrollbar plugin would probably be quickest and easiest
The jQuery UI one is very easy to use and easy to skin
This is not something you can do with HTML or CSS. If you're willing to use jQuery, Flash, &c., then you have numerous options, but that seems out of scope based on your tags.
Some versions of IE (5.5 - 8, not sure about 9) allow pages to set custom colors for scrollbar components using CSS, like this:
body {
scrollbar-base-color: #000000;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-DarkShadow-Color: #888888;
}
However, that is non-standard and doesn't allow for the degree of customization you want.
I am hoping to incorporate custom scrollbars in my site as there are divs with set heights that will overflow. I have managed to get exactly what I want using webkit styling in css however I am aware that there will be issues when looking at the site in Firefox or IE.
As a result, I tried to incorporate the jScrollPane library into my site but its causing all sorts of js "clashes" which is throwing the whole site into a mess!
Are there any simpler methods to customise my scroll bar so that I have cross browser compatibility without adding a new js page to the site?
Alternatively - is there a way I can attach something to the css for when the browser is firefox!?
Thanks
JD
Fast forward to 2017, and there are a lot of good custom scrollbar scripts these days. By good I mean ones that rely on native scrolling mechanics and works on mobile devices too. The one I use is Perfect Scrollbar. Some other good ones can be found here in this blog post.
I'm a little confused with what exactly you're asking for, but if you're looking for a scroll bar of some sort that can be customized with CSS, look no further than jQuery UI's Slider.
You'll have to add some event handlers to do the scrolling, but it shouldn't be too difficult over-all.
Here are some custom scrollbars you can use:
http://www.net-kit.com/jquery-custom-scrollbar-plugins/
One off these solutions should work. BTW i use JScrollpane and it works like a charm for me
I went through all of the suggestions above and was disappointed by either of the following issues:
poor cross-browser compatibility
lag
a lot of redundant code/ dependencies (jQuery UI)
Therefore, I've used some CSS trickery and JavaScript (depends on jQuery selectors) to build my own custom scrollbar implementation. The demo is available at https://dev.anuary.com/680a3c94-9651-550f-abca-e853613eb9ce/. The source code is hosted at https://github.com/anuary/jquery-custom-scrollbar.
My approach relies on the native browser scrollbar. However, this implementation does not support horizontal scrollbars.
Just found this, without jQuery, if anyone is interested:
http://www.script-tutorials.com/custom-scrollbars-cross-browser-solution/