Style the scrollbar with css in Google Chrome (-webkit)

Question

Can somebody please help me? I want to do a simple style for the scrollbar. I found some information on the internet and tried it, but it seems that it doesn't really work for some reasons. The scrollbar looks fine when refreshing the page, but as soon as you touch the scrollbar it goes crazy. It fills with a lot of colours and you can't understand that that is a scrollbar.

Here how it looks before you touch it - http://i40.tinypic.com/a2evro.png

Here how it looks after you touch it - http://i44.tinypic.com/qzkirn.png

Here is the code that I put in css:

::-webkit-scrollbar {
width: 16px;
height: 16px; }

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.10),inset 0 -1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.07); }

Thank you all. Cheers. Alex

Ganymede

Answer 1

Here is an example that works:

::-webkit-scrollbar {
    height: 12px;
    width: 12px;
    background: #000;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
    background: #393812;
    -webkit-border-radius: 1ex;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75);
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-corner {
    background: #000;
}

Or you can use jScrollPane.

Saffier

Both link broken – Zinazinah

can you post again the correct links dear @Saffier ? – Buzz

@Buzz The first link is dead but the interesting content is in my original post. The second link is still working on my side, though the project has been archived by Google. – Saffier

Answer 2

.invisible-scrollbar {
  scrollbar-width: none;
}
.invisible-scrollbar::-webkit-scrollbar {
  display: none;
}

Elane

Answer 3

For anyone checking this answer after dec 2021, I added a snippet with @orel answer (updated the code, also added some html and changed the scrollbar style from background: #000; to background: #aaa; in order to spot the scroll better).

::-webkit-scrollbar {
    height: 12px;
    width: 12px;
    background: #aaa;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
    background: #393812;
    -webkit-border-radius: 1ex;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75);
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-corner {
    background: #000;
}

.scrollable {
  max-width: 200px;
  max-height: 100%;
  
  height: 450px;
  /* change ` overflow: scroll ` to ` overflow: auto ` if you only want vertical scroll */
  overflow: scroll;
 }

<div class="scrollable">
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</div>

Caducous

doesn't work on chrome mobile iphone xsmax – Ridgeway

According to caniuse.com/css-scrollbar after iOS 14 (including 15.4) CSS scrollbar styling is not supported for some reason (neither on safari or on Chrome) – Caducous

Answer 4

With Version 121 (released 2024-01-23) chrome now supports scrollbar-color. See MDN Compatibility.

In order to still use the old pseudo elements, e.g. ::-webkit-scrollbar you can use the following:

::-webkit-scrollbar {
    height: 12px;
    width: 12px;
    background: #aaa;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
    background: #393812;
    -webkit-border-radius: 1ex;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75);
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-corner {
    background: #000;
}

/* This next part is important */
@supports (not selector(::-webkit-scrollbar)) {
  html {
    scrollbar-width: thin;
    scrollbar-gutter: stable;
    scrollbar-color: #FFF;
  }
}

Synecious