CSS customized scroll bar in div

C

CarenRose

I thought it would be helpful to consolidate the latest information on scroll bars, CSS, and browser compatibility.

Scroll Bar CSS Support

Currently, there exists no cross-browser scroll bar CSS styling definitions. The W3C article I mention at the end has the following statement and was recently updated (10 Oct 2014):

Some browsers (IE, Konqueror) support the non-standard properties 'scrollbar-shadow-color', 'scrollbar-track-color' and others. These properties are illegal: they are neither defined in any CSS specification nor are they marked as proprietary (by prefixing them with "-vendor-")

Microsoft

As others have mentioned, Microsoft supports scroll bar styling, but only for IE8 and above.

Example:

.TA {
    scrollbar-3dlight-color:gold;
    scrollbar-arrow-color:blue;
    scrollbar-base-color:;
    scrollbar-darkshadow-color:blue;
    scrollbar-face-color:;
    scrollbar-highlight-color:;
    scrollbar-shadow-color:
}

Chrome & Safari (WebKit)

Similarly, WebKit now has its own version:

Styling scrollbars: https://www.webkit.org/blog/363/styling-scrollbars/

Demo of all WebKit scroll bar styling

From Custom scrollbars in WebKit, relevant CSS: /* pseudo elements */ ::-webkit-scrollbar { } ::-webkit-scrollbar-button { } ::-webkit-scrollbar-track { } ::-webkit-scrollbar-track-piece { } ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { } ::-webkit-scrollbar-corner { } ::-webkit-resizer { } /* pseudo class selectors */ :horizontal :vertical :decrement :increment :start :end :double-button :single-button :no-button :corner-present :window-inactive

Firefox (Gecko)

As of version 64 Firefox supports scrollbar styling through the properties scrollbar-color (partially, W3C draft) and scrollbar-width (W3C draft). Some good information about the implementation can be found in this answer.

Cross-browser Scroll Bar Styling

JavaScript libraries and plug-ins can provide a cross-browser solution. There are many options.

20 jQuery Scrollbar plugin with examples (July 24, 2012) NiceScroll : jQuery Scrolling plugin for desktop,mobile & touch devices jQuery custom content scroller Tiny Scrollbar – A lightweight jQuery plugin etc.

NiceScroll : jQuery Scrolling plugin for desktop,mobile & touch devices

jQuery custom content scroller

Tiny Scrollbar – A lightweight jQuery plugin

etc.

30+ JavaScript/Ajax Techniques for Sliders, Scrollers and Scrollbars (May 07, 2008)

21 Useful Scrollbar CSS/JavaScript Styling Tutorials (August, 2012)

15+ Free and Premium jQuery Scrolling Plugins (August 26, 2012)

The list could go on. Your best bet is to search around, research, and test the available solutions. I am sure you will be able to find something that will fit your needs.

Prevent Illegal Scroll Bar Styling

Just in case you want to prevent scroll bar styling that hasn't been properly prefixed with "-vendor", this article over at W3C provides some basic instructions. Basically, you'll need to add the following CSS to a user style sheet associated with your browser. These definitions will override invalid scroll bar styling on any page you visit.

body, html {
  scrollbar-face-color: ThreeDFace !important;
  scrollbar-shadow-color: ThreeDDarkShadow !important;
  scrollbar-highlight-color: ThreeDHighlight !important;
  scrollbar-3dlight-color: ThreeDLightShadow !important;
  scrollbar-darkshadow-color: ThreeDDarkShadow !important;
  scrollbar-track-color: Scrollbar !important;
  scrollbar-arrow-color: ButtonText !important;
}

Duplicate or Similar Questions / Source Not Linked Above

Changing the scrollbars' style

CSS scrollbar style cross browser

How to create a custom scrollbar on a div (Facebook style)

Note: This answer contains information from various sources. If a source was used, then it is also linked in this answer.

The web has been around for over two decades, and there still isn't a standard way to style scrollbars. Twenty years of standards committees not noticing that people scroll things. There is no rate of slow, sarcastic clapping that would adequately express how that makes me feel. But a 20 year delay between the first and second clap would, I think, be fitting. For some perspective, I wasn't born yet when WWW came out, and I'm a computer engineer now. Way to go, W3C.

Just to add my two cents: Gmail and Youtube have stylized scrollbar in Chrome, and native one in Explorer and Firefox. If those standards are good enough for them it's good enough for me too

@PaulD.Waite Well, maybe, but that can be applied to anything. And CSS exists as a language precisely so that designers can choose to override defaults. The whole idea is that a bad UI designer can make any element unintuitive, but as soon as you assume the site designer is incompetent, what's the point in allowing page customization at all?

@PaulD.Waite Clearly, this isn't one of those things. Partly because it's in the area of the screen which the site designer should control entirely, anyway, so it poses no security risk, and partly because clearly- in practice- it's a non-issue. Plenty of sites implement their own hacks to make things that look and behave like scrollbars, and they work fine. Not only do they work fine, and look better, but people actually understand how to use them, which is the point. Unfortunately, because they're hacks, sometimes they won't play well with things like printing functionality.

This answer doesn't completely address his question, which was how to apply scrollbar styles to a specific div, rather than an entire page.

J

JosefAssad

Give this a try

Source : https://nicescroll.areaaperta.com/

Simple Implementation

<script type="text/javascript">
 $(document).ready(

  function() { 

    $("html").niceScroll();

  }

);
</script>

It is a jQuery plugin scrollbar, so your scrollbars are controllable and look the same across the various OS's.

I'm sure it's probably customizable, but the demo on their page scrolls far too slow and the scrollbar is far too difficult to grab.

Like virtually all jQuery plugins -- [shudders] -- this is awfully slow compared to native, threaded, GPU accelerated scroll implementations. Completely unsuitable for serious applications, and a hindrance to good UX. I'd recommend you avoid this, unless it's for a toy website.

I hate it when people call something pure javascript then BAM! a jquery plugin.

I wouldn't recommend using nicescroll, since it disables browser functionality. Scrolling with middle click doesn't work with nicescroll.

love this niceScroll, it doesn't add wrapper div around element which means it doesn't break the html structure

B

Brian Webster

Custom scroll bars aren't possible with CSS, you'll need some JavaScript magic.

Some browsers support non-spec CSS rules, such as ::-webkit-scrollbar in Webkit but is not ideal since it'll only work in Webkit. IE had something like that too, but I don't think they support it anymore.

obsolete answer

@T.Todua What is obsolete about this answer?

佚

佚名

Please check this link. Example with working demo

   #style-1::-webkit-scrollbar-track
{
    -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 0 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
    border-radius: 10px;
    background-color: #F5F5F5;
}

#style-1::-webkit-scrollbar
{
    width: 12px;
    background-color: #F5F5F5;
}

#style-1::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb
{
    border-radius: 10px;
    -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 0 6px rgba(0,0,0,.3);
    background-color: #555;
}

CSS Scroll Bars

Thank you for the demo. I first ran it with Firefox 58.0.2 (64-bit, Windows 7 Pro/64) and all of its scroll bars were identical. Then ran with Chrome Version 65.0.3325.162 (Official Build) (64-bit) and they were all different. So (perhaps unintentionally) you have demonstrated the limitations of the -webkit- approach.

it's not cross-browseer

This answer, I believe, properly fulfills the question being asked in regards to not overriding the browsers main scrollbars by targeting the specific element desired.

n

ne1410s

Like many people, I was looking for something that was:

Consistently styled and functional across most modern browsers

Not some ridiculous 3000-line bloated jQuery extension cr*p

...But alas - nothing!

Well if a job's worth doing... I was able to get something up and running in about 30 mins. Disclaimer: there's quite a few known (and probably a few as yet unknown) problems with it, but it makes me wonder what on Earth the other 2920 lines of JS are there for in many offerings!

(window => { let initCoords; const coords_update = e => { if (initCoords) { const elem = initCoords.bar.closest('.scrollr'); const eSuffix = initCoords.axis.toUpperCase(); const sSuffix = initCoords.axis == 'x' ? 'Left' : 'Top'; const dSuffix = initCoords.axis == 'x' ? 'Width' : 'Height'; const max = elem['scroll' + dSuffix] - elem['client' + dSuffix]; const room = elem['client' + dSuffix] - initCoords.bar['client' + dSuffix]; const delta = e['page' + eSuffix] - initCoords.abs; const abs = initCoords.p0 + delta; elem['scroll' + sSuffix] = max * abs / room; } }; const scrollr_resize = elem => { const xBar = elem.querySelector('.track.x .bar'); const yBar = elem.querySelector('.track.y .bar'); const xRel = elem.clientWidth / elem.scrollWidth; const yRel = elem.clientHeight / elem.scrollHeight; xBar.style.width = (100 * xRel).toFixed(2) + '%'; yBar.style.height = (100 * yRel).toFixed(2) + '%'; }; const scrollr_init = elem => { const xTrack = document.createElement('span'); const yTrack = document.createElement('span'); const xBar = document.createElement('span'); const yBar = document.createElement('span'); xTrack.className = 'track x'; yTrack.className = 'track y'; xBar.className = 'bar'; yBar.className = 'bar'; xTrack.appendChild(xBar); yTrack.appendChild(yBar); elem.appendChild(xTrack); elem.appendChild(yTrack); elem.addEventListener('wheel', scrollr_OnWheel); elem.addEventListener('scroll', scrollr_OnScroll); xTrack.addEventListener('wheel', xTrack_OnWheel); xTrack.addEventListener('click', xTrack_OnClick); xTrack.addEventListener('mouseover', () => xTrack.classList.add('active')); xTrack.addEventListener('mouseout', () => { if (!initCoords) xTrack.classList.remove('active'); }); yTrack.addEventListener('click', yTrack_OnClick); yTrack.addEventListener('mouseover', () => yTrack.classList.add('active')); yTrack.addEventListener('mouseout', () => { if (!initCoords) yTrack.classList.remove('active'); }); xBar.addEventListener('click', bar_OnClick); xBar.addEventListener('mousedown', xBar_OnMouseDown); yBar.addEventListener('click', bar_OnClick); yBar.addEventListener('mousedown', yBar_OnMouseDown); scrollr_resize(elem); }; window.addEventListener('load', e => { const scrollrz = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.scrollr')); scrollrz.forEach(scrollr_init); }); window.addEventListener('resize', e => { const scrollrz = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.scrollr')); scrollrz.forEach(scrollr_resize); }); window.addEventListener('mousemove', coords_update); window.addEventListener('mouseup', e => { initCoords = null; Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.track.active')) .forEach(elem => elem.classList.remove('active')); }); function xBar_OnMouseDown(e) { const p0 = this.offsetLeft; initCoords = { axis: 'x', abs: e.pageX, bar: this, p0 }; } function yBar_OnMouseDown(e) { const p0 = this.offsetTop; initCoords = { axis: 'y', abs: e.pageY, bar: this, p0 }; } function bar_OnClick(e) { e.stopPropagation(); } function xTrack_OnClick(e) { const elem = this.closest('.scrollr'); const xBar = this.querySelector('.bar'); let unit = elem.clientWidth - 30; if (e.offsetX <= xBar.offsetLeft) unit *= -1; elem.scrollLeft += unit; } function yTrack_OnClick(e) { const elem = this.closest('.scrollr'); const yBar = this.querySelector('.bar'); let unit = elem.clientHeight - 30; if (e.offsetY <= yBar.offsetTop) unit *= -1; elem.scrollTop += unit; } function xTrack_OnWheel(e) { e.stopPropagation(); const elem = this.closest('.scrollr'); const left0 = elem.scrollLeft; const delta = e.deltaY !== 0 ? e.deltaY : e.deltaX; elem.scrollLeft += delta; const moved = left0 !== elem.scrollLeft; if (moved) e.preventDefault(); } function scrollr_OnWheel(e) { const left0 = this.scrollLeft; const top0 = this.scrollTop; this.scrollLeft += e.deltaX; this.scrollTop += e.deltaY; const moved = left0 !== this.scrollLeft || top0 !== this.scrollTop; if (moved) e.preventDefault(); } function scrollr_OnScroll(e) { const xTrack = this.querySelector('.track.x'); const yTrack = this.querySelector('.track.y'); const xBar = xTrack.querySelector('.bar'); const yBar = yTrack.querySelector('.bar'); const xMax = this.scrollWidth - this.clientWidth; const yMax = this.scrollHeight - this.clientHeight; const xFrac = this.scrollLeft / xMax; const yFrac = this.scrollTop / yMax; const xAbs = xFrac * (this.clientWidth - xBar.clientWidth); const yAbs = yFrac * (this.clientHeight - yBar.clientHeight); xTrack.style.left = this.scrollLeft + 'px'; xTrack.style.bottom = -this.scrollTop + 'px'; xBar.style.left = xAbs + 'px'; yTrack.style.top = this.scrollTop + 'px'; yTrack.style.right = -this.scrollLeft + 'px'; yBar.style.top = yAbs + 'px'; }; })(window); .scrollr { overflow: hidden; position: relative; } .track { position: absolute; cursor: pointer; transition: background-color .3s; user-select: none; } .track.x { left: 0; bottom: 0; width: 100%; height: 10px; } .track.y { top: 0; right: 0; height: 100%; width: 10px; } .bar { position: absolute; background-color: yellow; transition: background-color .3s, opacity .3s, width .3s, height .3s, margin .3s; display: block; width: 100%; height: 100%; opacity: .7; } .track.x .bar { min-width: 25px; height: 3px; margin: 5px 0 2px 0; } .track.y .bar { min-height: 25px; width: 3px; margin: 0 2px 0 5px; } .track.active { background-color: #ccc; } .track.active .bar { background-color: #999; margin: 0; opacity: 1; } .track.x.active .bar { height: 10px; } .track.y.active .bar { width: 10px; } /* Custom client stuff */ .content { background: red; } .content p { width: 450px; margin: 0; } .scrollr { max-width: 350px; max-height: 150px; }

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