David, on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 at 14:10 David O'Neill wrote:
> Is there anyway to customize scrollbars using css so that they don't default > to the basic crappy windows grey ones? I know tis not a big thing as I > generally tend to stay away from having to make users scroll as much as > possible, but in some cases it can't be avoided, so if one was to go about > it how would it be done, and that is only if it indeed can be done. 1.) You could in IE >= 5.5: scrollbar-arrow-color: #000000; scrollbar-3dlight-color: #C0C0C0; scrollbar-highlight-color: #E0E0E0; scrollbar-face-color: #C0C0C0; scrollbar-shadow-color: #808080; scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #000000; scrollbar-track-color: #E0E0E0 2.) You shouldn't do that. Just some questions: How do you know that the scrollbars are "the basic crappy windows grey ones"? Mine are brown and I'm on windows... How do you manage it, to stay away from "having to make the users scroll"? You can't control the screen settings of the user! What if the user uses a 800x600 screen with sidebar enabled or window not maximised? What if he set the browser to minimum font-size 20px? Don't try to bring things under your control that aren't yours! Design for flexibility! You've got to face the fact that web is not print. There are several things that you can't know. And you should try to make your design as flexible as possible to deal with these circumstances. Just my 2c. regards Martin ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
