I am a newbie to HTML and CSS and am trying to design a website, where the majority of text will be in boxes on the screen.
Each box will be coloured differently and will have more text than is visible directly
My question
Can I make the background colour of the scroll section, ie the bit between the two arrow heads match the existing background colour?
If I could even change the colour of the actual scroll bar, that would be even better
Finally, can I get rid of the horizontal scroll bar, as it is not required ? At present it makes my box have a white band along the bottom
There are several soutions to change the style of scrollbars on websites:
Via CSS:
This doesnt work reliable: For example it works only in IE, not in firefox. So I would avoid that.
Via JavaScript:
I suggest: Hide the browser-scrollbars and make your own scrollbar using javascript and some arrow-images, so you got full control over the style.
For example you could use JQuery and JScrollPane (demo). According to the documentation this works in all modern browsers (IE, Firefox ...). If the user would disable javascript support it would still work but the scrollbars appear unstyled.
Only Internet Explorer and Opera in quirks mode support colouring browser scrollbars, so you'll need to try a javascript solution.
Interestingly, CSS defines some system colors, so if you're (very) flexible with your design you could set the background of the scroll area to match one of those. An unlikely solution though.
For the horizontal scrollbar, you could try out overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: scroll. That is intended to stop horizontal scrolling but allow vertical scrolling. I believe it is CSS3 so is unlikely to work in all browsers.
Update: Just saw this, which should meet your needs: http://www.leigeber.com/2009/09/javascript-scrollable-div/
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Whenever I have content that expands the page height, a scrollbar appears on my rendered website. However, the scrollbar pushes my content to the left by the width of the scroll bar so when I navigate to a page where the height is less then the page height, there's a noticeable jump as the page width resizes. Is it possible to have the scrollbar sit on top of all my html content? Similar to how scrolling works in Chrome on iOS.
Ideally a css property like overflow:absolute where the scrollbar appears and the content isn't clipped would be the best but I know that doesn't exist.
EDIT:
In the image below, you can see that the scrollbar has a white background and has pushed my html content to the left. What I want is the html content to be underneath the scrollbar, as if the scrollbar had absolute positioning to the right.
I conferred with one of my colleagues who's running the same version of chrome as I am and his scrollbar does exactly what I want. Maybe AB testing on Google's part?
There is no reliable cross-browser way to do what you're looking for.
Different browsers handle the scrollbar differently -- some (including Safari and some versions of Chrome) already do exactly what you want, most others enforce a particular background-color and width for the scrollbar (not always the same width) and push the content over to make room. Any negative-margin or width-greater-than-100% trickery will either not work at all or will put some of your content underneath a non-transparent scrollbar in many browsers (and offscreen in others).
If the 'jump' when the scrollbar appears is too distracting, you can force the scrollbar to always be present with overflow-y:scroll.
Native scrollbar styling is limited, but here is a demo of how to do it:
body::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
background-color: darkgrey;
outline: 1px solid slategrey;
}
http://codepen.io/zakkain/pen/phjBC
Chrome and IE respond to it very well. Firefox not so much, the issue is logged here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790 and is stale.
If you want firefox, you'll have to go with a custom scrollbar replacer.
And how to compensate for scrollbar is explained here: How to compensate for Vertical Scrollbar when it is not yet present
It works well, but most code pens can't show it, so you'll have to experiment on your own.
This is the OSX disappearing scrollbar issue (not sure if it's relevant for modern versions of OSX): CSS - Overflow: Scroll; - Always show vertical scroll bar?
As it would turn out, all I had to do was update my version of OSX...baffling. I'll accept #DanielBeck's answer because it's a reasonable answer to a coding question whereas here, the solution was to arbitrary update my laptop software.
I have a html layout with a navigation bar at the top and a main content area below it, with a left and a right area. The top bar has a background gradient with a hard stop in it. The main content's right area (sidebar) has a background color that should line up with the gradient stop of of the navigation area, at 75%.
See this for a simplified version of my layout. In Firefox and Safari this renders fine, but Chrome puts the gradient stop a little further than it should. I tried to use pixel values instead of percentages, but the behaviour stayed the same.
Any idea why this is happening, and suggested workarounds? Thanks!
Specially with modern browsers that deals with anti-aliasing in so different ways. What i have done was a js fix, (which wouldn't be good for your code :D) also you would have to add a custom padding for each element. But you'll need to hire a freelancer to do it for you, because it would take a while to complete (browser targeting, getting each element, adding padding for each element...)
if u can post the code it would be simple for more possibility.however i am looking for more solutions.
When a user perform a search on my website I want to show the result in a small div with vertical scrollbars instead of that the user need to scroll the full page. That works perfect in all browsers BUT I get problems on the iPad. I can see that the search result doesn't fit into the div but no scroll bar is showing up on the iPad. Also when I try to scroll inside the div the full page is scrolled instead. Is there a solution to get this working?
HTML AND CSS:
<div class="searchResult">
//Here I show the search result
</div>
div.searchResult
{
height: 540px;
overflow: -moz-scrollbars-vertical;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
I believe the answer is that you cannot scroll unless you use the two-finger methods. However if you look at the last link, there is a workaround.
Issues:
CSS Overflow property not working in iPad
http://www.webmanwalking.org/library/experiments/dsp_frames_outer_document.html
Workaround:
http://cubiq.org/scrolling-div-on-iphone-ipod-touch
iScroll is the jQuery plugin that tahdhaze09 mentioned. And to be more specific:
iScroll is evolving and adding many new features to the basic
scrolling functionality. If all you need is the plain old scroller for
mobile webkit, you should really use iscroll-lite.js instead.
iscroll-lite.js is part of the iScroll package. It looks as if it will solve the one-finger scroll problem quite nicely.
For some odd reason changing the div to a span works on an iPad.
I have a fixed-width content area using margin:0 auto to keep it centered and a repeating background that fills the whole page. Nothing should cause the browser to use a horizontal scrollbar, unless the browser is less than browser is less than the fixed-width content. In IE however, a horizontal scrollbar is present and allows me to scroll slightly to the right which displays a 'gap' that appears to be the width of the vertical scrollbar. Curious as to why this is happening.
I have searched far and wide and found people with similar problems, but most discussion is regarding tables or other specific elements causing the problem that are not present on my page.
See link for example, open in IE8 and scroll right. Any help is appreciated.
http://finchsbrasserie.com/test_new_site/
Why don't you set the div css propety as overflow-x:hidden
Can we change a scroll bar styling, Instead of default scroll bar, I want to place a image on it.
No.
IE allow change color of some scrollbar elements. But other browsers - NO.
The only solution is use custom JS to implement this. But this is always more ugly and non-useful instead of native controls.
Take a look at: http://www.kelvinluck.com/assets/jquery/jScrollPane/jScrollPane.html
See if this works for you - flexScroll
This does not place an image over the scrollbar, it creates a virtual scrollbar. I don't know if it is possible to gain control over scrollbar using html/js.
You can't use an image for the scroll-bars, but you can change the colour of them. See this page for information on how to do it.
Be aware that the scrollbar properties are not valid CSS, and not all browsers will obey the style of the scrollbars.
Just found a link for the similar effect,hope it helps..
[http://www.hiddenpixels.com/javascript/custom-javascript-scrollbar/][1]