Scrollbar color change in Firefox

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I want to change the scrollbar color in Firefox. How can I do that?

no, that's not possible, and I'm glad Firefox doesn't allow just anyone to change my scrollbar. — Lie Ryan, Oct 08 '10 at 12:37
Just so you know, I got the jQuery to work (http://martinsmucker.com/demo/scroller.html), so I've updated my answer with some step-by-step instructions and explanations of what's happening. Let me know if you still have any problems. — Michael Martin-Smucker, Oct 08 '10 at 14:02
It's totally asinine for Firefox to exert this kind of control over visual elements on the page. Who's to say their approach to the design of a scrollbar is *correct* for visually impaired people. FAIL! — arxpoetica, Mar 17 '12 at 13:40
40% (2 out of 5) of the above comments don't seem to be very helpful. If you're not going to supply help, don't comment please. Not sure if you’ve found a solution yet, but I found this article very helpful. It does not work in IE or Firefox since they only allow you to control a few aspects of the scrollbar styling. http://css-tricks.com/custom-scrollbars-in-webkit/ — Joshua Fort, May 07 '14 at 19:44

Michael Martin-Smucker · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-10T15:17:42.987

Changing the scrollbar color in Firefox is not as trivial as it is in Internet Explorer and Opera. Firefox only allows the style of the scrollbar to be set by the theme. This is a good thing. Lots of users don't like having the look and feel of interface widgets randomly changed at the whim of a designer. Changing the look of interface pieces can be even more of a problem for visually impaired visitors who may be using a high contrast theme.

That said, if the scrollbar is contained within a <div> in your page, you can create a custom scrollbar and make it functional using JavaScript. This jQuery plugin looks like it would do the trick pretty nicely: http://jscrollpane.kelvinluck.com/

I think this is more or less what you want to do: http://martinsmucker.com/demo/scroller.html

Here's how it works:

Inside the document's <head>, we have to reference several stylesheets and scripts (which you've probably already downloaded from http://jscrollpane.kelvinluck.com/.

This is where a vast majority of the magic happens:

<!-- Styles -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="jquery.jscrollpane.css" />
<style type="text/css">
    html, body {
        height: 100%;
        margin: 0;
        padding:0;
    }
    #container {
        height:100%;
        width:100%;
        margin: 0;
        padding:0;
        overflow: auto;
    }
</style>

<!-- Scripts -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.mousewheel.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.jscrollpane.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $('.scroll-pane').jScrollPane();
    });
</script>

This assumes that the css and js files are located in the same directory as your html file. We start by linking to the provided stylesheet.

Then, add a bit of CSS to prevent the normal scrollbars from showing. Set the margin and padding of html and body to 0, and set the height to 100%. All of our content will be wrapped in a div with an id of "container". This container fills the page exactly (height: 100%; width:100%;) and it steals the scrolling so that we can customize the scrollbar (overflow: auto;).

Then we reference all of the appropriate scripts. Here I'm using the copy of jQuery hosted by Google, and again I'm assuming that all of the local scripts are in the same directory as the html file. The last little bit of jquery finds all of the divs with the "scroll-pane" class and adds the appropriate elements and scroll functionality to them.

The html is then very simple.

<body>
    <div class="scroll-pane" id="container">
    All of your content for the page goes here.
    </div>
</body>

If you've done everything right, your page should look like my example.

$('.scroll-pane-arrows').jScrollPane( { showArrows: true, horizontalGutter: 10 } ); — XMen, Oct 08 '10 at 12:50
@Rahul, could you edit your original post to show the code as it currently looks in your website? I think that would be really helpful. — Michael Martin-Smucker, Oct 08 '10 at 13:19

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 01 '19 at 15:59

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Since version 64 Firefox allows limited styling of scrollbars:

.my-scrollable {
   scrollbar-color: red blue;
   scrollbar-width: thin;
}

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scrollbar-color

answered Feb 01 '19 at 15:59

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score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 07 '11 at 13:49

Chrome and Safari do support the coloring of the scrollbars. Place the following code in your css and see the magic happen:

::-webkit-scrollbar {
  height: 12px;
  width: 12px;
  background: #969696;
  -webkit-border-radius: 1ex;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
  background: #2B2B2B;
  -webkit-border-radius: 1ex;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75);
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-corner {
  background: #1A1A1A;
}

The only thing missing is for firefox to support this feature.

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 08 '10 at 12:45

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It is not possible directly via CSS.

But if you can use jQuery, jscrollpane may help you.

answered Oct 08 '10 at 12:45

Nivas

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– – XMen Oct 08 '10 at 12:52
$('.scroll-pane-arrows').jScrollPane( { showArrows: true, horizontalGutter: 10 } ) ; but it didnt wokr why – XMen Oct 08 '10 at 12:53
You'll also need a `` that points to the jScrollPane.js file (and before it, you'll need to make sure you're referencing the jQuery library). It might be helpful if you post a larger chunk of your code in the original question. – Michael Martin-Smucker Oct 08 '10 at 12:53
i have included the jquery file also – XMen Oct 08 '10 at 12:55
is i need to include jquerymousewheel file ? – XMen Oct 08 '10 at 12:57
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Can you edit your question and post what you tried? It is difficult to read code in comments. Try posting logically complete block(s) – Nivas Oct 08 '10 at 13:13

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 08 '10 at 12:37

you can't. as you can see here, this is only possible fpr IE5+ and Opera7.2+.

EDIT: with a bit of javascript it could be possible to build you own "html-scrollbars" that could be styled like you want them - but i don't think you should do that, writing this just to be detailed.

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 15 '19 at 15:44

Well, I have heard someone saying "It's Impossible"... But I don't believe in the impossible.

In the follwing example I only want to stylize the <ul> list in the main sidebar. Simply try this solution for Firefox scrollbar stylizes:

<div class="parent">
<div class="sidebar">
<ul class="scrollable">
<li></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

The Css will be:

.scrollable {
overflow: auto;
max-height:80vh;
overflow-y: scroll;
scrollbar-color: #0A4C95 #C2D2E4;
}

.scrollable::-webkit-scrollbar {
width: 0.5em!important;
}

.scrollable::-webkit-scrollbar-track-piece {
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 0 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}

.scrollable::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:vertical {
background-color: #ddd;
outline: 1px solid slategrey;
}

Here are the final results:

(Note: The first image is the default scrollbar color).

Note: If you want to make the scrollbar width thinner than the one shown in the image just add `scrollbar-width:thin;` to the div `.scrollable`. Thanks — Jodyshop, Dec 15 '19 at 22:20

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 29 '14 at 04:20

This is not really useful as far as I know, but it's worth noting that the attribute which controls whether or not scrollbars are displayed in Firefox is: (reference link)

Attribute....scrollbars
Type.........nsIDOMBarProp
Description..The object that controls whether or not scrollbars 
             are shown in the window. This attribute is "replaceable" 
             in JavaScript. Read only

Firefox also has the following vendor specific properties:

overflow: -moz-scrollbars-none

other valid values are -moz-scrollbars-horizontal and -moz-scrollbars-vertical.

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 02 '15 at 07:53

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for Firefox or cross browser you can use : jQuery custom content scroller

more simple and easy to use

here sample i implement in magento and tested on firefox, opera, chrome and safari : https://i.stack.imgur.com/wnRCL.png

answered Oct 02 '15 at 07:53

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Aug 07 '22 at 18:12

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In Firefox V103 coloring scrollbar works with:

html, body{scrollbar-color: #f33942 #000;}

answered Aug 07 '22 at 18:12

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