Can't change scrollbar colors!

liunx · Jan 11, 2008

Hey, I can't figure out why I can't change the scroll bar colors on my site. The only thing I can think of that might cause it not to work is because the site is in a directory. Its a second version of my site so I put it in a folder named "version2". So that might me the reason it won't work. Here is the code on my home page. Just so you know it won't work no matter where I put it on the page.

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
A:LINK {color: #c0c0c0; text-decoration: none}
A:VISITED {color: #c0c0c0; text-decoration: none}
A:HOVER {color: #820000; text-decoration: none}
A:ACTIVE {color: #5b0000; text-decoration: none}

</STYLE>
<title>Miseria Cantare</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="101010" font="ffffff" link="696969">

<script type='text/javascript'>

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function Go(){return}

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<table width="754" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" bordercolor="303030">
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<p align="center"><br>

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</html>Scroll bars are a part of MY browser, not YOUR site - leave them alone. What you are attempting to use is IE only feature that thankfully wont work in user friendly browsers.Have you tried building a style sheet that sits outside your document?

<link rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css"
media="all" href=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"your_styleSheet.css" />

I like the custom scrollbars on a lot of sites. However, it is often overdone. Make sure that you are not building your user experience around the use of custom scrollbars. Why? Because it only works in IE. I used them on <a class="postlink" href="http://www.ailema.com">www.ailema.com</a> and they work fine. I wish more browsers would support things like that. That may be a while though... NS still doesnt support padding very well.

Anyway, I would try bringing in a new css file. It's a good habit to get into anyway. You can change the style sheet by changing one file instead of going into each file that has the css hard coded into it.

Hey I am not sure if this willl be at any help, but this style works for me

scrollbar-face-color: #C2DADA;
scrollbar-highlight-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-3dlight-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #000000;
scrollbar-track-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color:#FFFFFF;

it is a bit different from your (not the colors) it seems you have some extra '-' I don't know if this makes a diffenrence.

asbjoernIf you are going to use a XHTML Strict Doctype, at least use the full version. A partial one throws some browsers into quirks mode. Second, validate your pages. It's pretty pointless to use a XHTML Strict Doctype and then fill your page with invalid code. Just note the scroll bar color thing is not W3C recommended and thus won't validate.

Can't change scrollbar colors!

liunx

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