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Using CSS to Customize Your HTML Web Page Form Scroll Bar Colors (IE)


If you would like to change the colors of your web page's scrollbars, add the following code between your <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags.


<STYLE type="text/css">
<!--

body { scrollbar-face-color: #317B9C;
scrollbar-track-color: #87B4C9;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #54A1C4;
scrollbar-3dlight-color: #B8D7E6;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #1E6180;
scrollbar-highlight-color: #7CBCDA;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #1E6180}

//-->
</STYLE>

Change the text indicated in red to your preferred colors.

If you would like to change the colors of your form scrollbars, add the following code to your TEXTAREA code. You can also change the text color on your "submit" and "reset" buttons as well.

<FORM METHOD=post ACTION="/cgi-bin/example.cgi">
<TEXTAREA wrap="virtual" name="comments" rows=6 cols=20 STYLE="scrollbar-face-color: #317B9C; scrollbar-track-color: #87B4C9; scrollbar-arrow-color: #54A1C4; scrollbar-3dlight-color: #B8D7E6; scrollbar-shadow-color: #1E6180; scrollbar-highlight-color: #7CBCDA; scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #1E6180">This example displays the scrollbars in an alternative color. You can change these colors to whatever you'd like simply be changing the hexidecimal color codes indicated in red.</TEXTAREA>
<INPUT type="Submit" VALUE="Submit" STYLE="color: #1E6180">
<INPUT type="Reset" VALUE="Reset" STYLE="color: #1E6180">
</FORM>

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Keep in mind, if you change the colors of your scrollbars, make sure your selected colors match your website's color scheme.



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