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are you able to change the color of scroll bars?
Nov 22nd, 2001 14:12
ASA Admin, Jean-Bernard Valentaten, Colin Fraser, Nicholas Thomas, ASA Admin.
> Dynamically with a Javascript, no, all you can do is turn them on or
> off.
> I recently recieved an email from Phillip Oertel, of
> me@phillipoertel.com, who stated
> not true. colors can be changed (IE5), but not the width (i
> experimented...)
> Well, if you want to take advantage of Microsoft's colour controls
> then yes you can probably change colours of just about all elements
> using a Javascript. However, just be aware that Netscape does not
> give you the same control, nor does Opera, and I have no idea about
> how other browsers handle the same issues nor earlier versions of IE.
> Herein lies the biggest dilemma of developing Web pages. How can you
> handle all the different types of browsers there are? Simple, dont
> try, dont try to be all things to all people. Keep your pages small
> and as generic as possible, that way all browsers can see every
> effect you want. This is my personal opinion only though, I am sure
> many people will disagree, but then I DGAF. All I want is something I
> can see that is fairly straightforward and loads relatively quickly.
> Fancy effects and complex pages are lost to me, They take too much of
> my time to load and to view. If the information in them is worth it
> then OK but this is a rarity.
What you can do, is to dynamically change the style of just any element
(CSS is the keyword here). But please keep in mind that only IE5+ and
NN6 do support CSS2 (and then only partially)!!
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ASA Admin.
This is the code for css if you really want to change the colour of the
scroll bar! it works with IE6 as well.
<style type="text/css">
body {
scrollbar-arrow-color: black;
scrollbar-base-color: black;
scrollbar-dark-shadow-color: orange;
scrollbar-track-color: black;
scrollbar-face-color: orange;
scrollbar-shadow-color: red;
scrollbar-highlight-color: silver;
scrollbar-3d-light-color: orange;
}
</style>
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