Scrollbar styling
Styling scrollbars on the web, is a request I often get from designers.
I recently had a task, where I needed some stylish scrollbars. The CSS for styling scrollbars in IE wasn't good enough. So the hunt was on.
You can see what happens to a IE6, when you style the scrollbars (left is styled, right is standard):
CSS styling of scrollbars only works in IE5.5+, and is not standard CSS. And it's very ugly in my opinion.
So i started searching the net for solutions. I had to find a javascript that made stylish scrollbars, with behavior of the normal scrollbars. And it had to supply scrollbars for those not using javascript. I found some solutions that had some of these specifications, but not all.
The product i finally chose was this:
http://www.hesido.com/web.php?page=customscrollbar
I couldn't find a free script with all those specification, but this one is rather cheap, and very good.
Here is a nice article, about the usability of styled scrollbars:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050711.html
Tags: javascript, scrollbar, styling