We want desktop scrollbars to be more visually appealing. Especially important for overflow containers inside of the viewport that need to blend better with the visual design aesthetic (in my opinion, visuals are not not quite as important for page-level scrollbars, but that’s a point of con...
CodePen Embed Fallback I first saw this ina Pen by Myk. That example didn’t differentiate the thumb part of the scrollbar at all, which makes it more meter-like, but also harder to use. My demo has a slightly different color thumb. Can I really use this? No! Aside from it being ...
The CSS way of customizing scrollbars is simple, but looks a bit rough. However, operating systems like Windows, OS X and Linux have their own style for the scrollbar. This in return could lead to undesirable results and inconsistencies for your design. Remember, you should keep it simple,...
A side-effect when showing scrollbars on the web is that the layout of the content might change depending on the type of scrollbar. Thescrollbar-gutterCSS property—which will soon ship with Chromium — aims to give us developers more control over that. Bramus Van Damme,“Prevent unwanted L...
s scrollbars without resorting to hiding the scrollbar viaoverflow: hiddenand rendering JavaScript-based scrollbars or usingbrowser-prefixed scrollbar attributes. Withscrollbar-color, on the other hand, we can style a scrollbar to match a design without resorting to redoing browser functionality ...
@patternicity: This is bit of a troublesome case for mobile devices. When implementing you probably want to also do a responsive design so you’ll only serve this kind of interface to high resolution devices that can afford the space. ...