Hey Chris As people have mentioned scroll bar colouring is not part of the W3C spec yadda, yadda......
My 2c, personally I don't like changing scroll bar colours and other aspects of the user's "environment", but for certain clients we will do it. It doesn't have any detrimental effect in other browsers so it really comes down to the target audience and the job in question. The background for *why* this isn't in the spec goes something like this: 1) CSS is designed for controlling the presentation of a document not of the browser. The scroll bars are browser widgets (like drop boxes), title bars and menu items. They are not part of the document itself. "But what about overflow:auto?" Its a fine line but that's where they drew it, text inputs are part of the document, but drop boxes (<select>) are kinda half part of the document and half part of the browser or OS. I believe that leaving the Browser/OS environment untouched is a good thing about 99% of the time. Some users tend to get confused when you do something as simple as change the scroll bar colours - the logical link between what they are seeing and what they are able to do is suddenly lost on them. 2) Who said anything about scroll bars? Assuming that scroll bars actually exist in your users environment is kind of against the whole concept of CSS and web standards. There are numerous user agents that don't have scroll bars and I think there are likely to be more in the future. Screen readers, some text only browsers and futuristic 3D browsing applications with matrix like widgets all come to mind. Anyway... go for it if you like but you won't sneak past the validator. Could you perhaps do this in JavaScript (Lindsay?). I think JS is probably a better place for messing with the browser than CSS. Cheers Mark ------------------ Mark Stanton Technical Director Gruden Pty Ltd Tel: 9956 6388 Mob: 0410 458 201 Fax: 9956 8433 http://www.gruden.com ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
