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Billy Hunt

 

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  		colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 6:49:36   
Hi guys
I'm new to css and I'm trying to put colour scroll bar in my web page. http://people.ozzienet.net/wgg/
I have no problem when starting from scratch with FrontPage 2003. http://people.ozzienet.net/wgg/jump1.htm
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  		RE: colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 7:04:34   
That's because you have the style set in one page

<style type="text/css">
body {
scrollbar-base-color: #4a005b;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #FFFFFF;-->
</style>

but in the other one you're calling in an external style sheet which doesn't have the scrollbar tags in it.

Edit mondo.css as follows:

body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #4a005b;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-base-color: #4a005b;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #FFFFFF;
}

You should be aware that coloured bars only work in IE. All the other browsers ignore them.

Welcome to OF. Hope you enjoy your stay. :)

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  		RE: colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 7:05:38   
Ooooh and you'll normally get a faster reply if you post css questions in the css forum. The experts hang out in there. :)

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Billy Hunt

 

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  		RE: colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 7:18:11   
Thank you jaybee, you have been very helpful.
I can see I will be hanging around here more often.
Cheers
Billy in Oz

(Australia)

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jaybee

 

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  		RE: colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 7:37:02   
You're welcome. :)

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Kitka

 

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  		RE: colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 7:47:01   
jaybee:

How is it that in this thread you have 5 red/white/blue muffins, but in other recent messages you have 5 gold stars and are designated a Moderator? Got multiple personalities going huh? :) When do we see the dark side? :)

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  		RE: colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 8:04:13   
It only shows in the forum that she is to moderate.

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Billy Hunt

 

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  		RE: colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 8:07:08   
oops
didn't work. Maybe I placed it in the wrong place.
I have put it at the start of mondo.css

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  		RE: colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 8:08:40   
quote:

It only shows in the forum that she is to moderate.


Ahhh - thanks for that tidbit Deb! I learn a little each day. Can I go to bed now? :) LOL :)

PS. After all, it is just after midnight here right now :)

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  		RE: colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 8:44:48   
Sweet Dreams Kitka!:)

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  		RE: colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 8:58:44   
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I have put it at the start of mondo.css


I just looked at mondo.css and there's no change. Have you uploaded it?

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Larry M.

 

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  		RE: colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 9:45:39   
I bagged the idea of ever using colored scrollbars based on this thread:
http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/m-240626/mpage-1/key-/tm.htm#241518

Open season again?

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Donkey

 

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  		RE: colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 11:46:50   
Way back I thought that coloured scroll bars looked really cool, but after looking at and participating in a long and bitter battle between pro and anti factions in another forum I was convinced that they are a bad idea.
because they:
1)Are virtually IE specific.
2) Are part of the browser not part of the website so we have no "right" to mess around with them.
3) Can limit access for people with poor sight and colour blindess.
4) Actually look decidedly uncool and make the site look amateurish.

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  		RE: colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 13:00:59   
Errrr

and as you can tell, a lot of people don't like them. :)

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Larry M.

 

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  		RE: colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 13:19:46   
quote:

Are part of the browser not part of the website so we have no "right" to mess around with them


Donkey,

I never considered this. Good point!

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c1sissy

 

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  		RE: colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 18:23:07   
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2) Are part of the browser not part of the website so we have no "right" to mess around with them.

Donkey,
This is a most important part of your post.

CSS is for seperating styling your pages, not your browser window, which is why I believe that if you use the css for the scroll bar it doesn't validate.

So style your pages, not your scroll bar. Thats what css is for.

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http://positioniseverything.net/
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Billy Hunt

 

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  		RE: colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 18:48:41   
jaybee: It was getting late so I haven't uploaded it yet. Will have another play with it today.

I had no idea coloured scroll bars only worked in IE. Maybe I should experiment with other browsers.

I agree commercial web site sites should never have coloured scroll bars, but my site is just a bit of fun while I try to learn the art of web design. This would be the best place start.

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c1sissy

 

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  		RE: colour scroll bar - 1/10/2005 19:17:10   
quote:

but my site is just a bit of fun while I try to learn the art of web design


There isn't anythign wrong with trying it out, I did so just to see how it would look, and was thrilled for the time that it did so.

Just playing around is one thing, but into a true design, its just not correct styling to do this.

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http://directory.css-styling.com
http://fmsforum.com
http://positioniseverything.net/
http://www.tanfa.co.uk/

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