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Re: Change scrollbar highlight color?

Subject: Re: Change scrollbar highlight color?
From: Paul B
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:43:03 -0500
Newsgroups: opera.general

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:22:31 -0500, Paul B wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:17:45 -0500, Lee Harvey wrote:
> 
>> Paul B wrote:
>>> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:24:21 -0500, Lee Harvey wrote:
>>>
>>>> Paul B wrote:
>>>>> IIRC, there's a way to change the scrollbar highlight color, I
>>>>> think through a .css file, but I'm not finding it right now.
>>>>
>>>> Here's one of many references after Googling "scrollbar color css":
>>>> http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/css/article.php/3470421
>>>>
>>>> IIRC, scrollbar styling only works in Quirks mode in Opera.
>>>>
>>>> Enjoy.
>>>
>>> Thanks, but the problem is not the html code, it's where to put
>>> it. I don't see a controlling .css for Opera.
>> 
>> There's at least two ways to skin that cat (pun intended):
>> 
>> 1) Learn how to skin Opera and set your own scrollbar style in the 
>> corresponding skin.ini file found in your skin.zip file.
>> 
>> 2) Leverage Opera's built-in user-stylesheet functionality, and specify 
>> something like this:
>> 
>>    /* Styled scrollbar */
>>    BODY {
>>    scrollbar-base-color: orange !important;
>>    scrollbar-arrow-color: green !important;
>>    scrollbar-DarkShadow-Color: blue !important;
>>    }
>> 
>> ...in your user.css file.
>> 
>> Note: While option 1 may be the most difficult to learn, it provides the 
>> best user experience for all pages.  After all, option 2 may only work 
>> correctly on "BackCompat" pages with properly formatted <BODY> tags.  To 
>> determine if option 2 would work on a page, enter this JavaScript 
>> bookmarklet into your address bar:
>> 
>>    javascript:alert(document.compatMode);
>> 
>> If you see "BackCompat" then there's a good chance option 2 may work.
>> 
>> GL & HTH
> 
> A quick thanks. I'll try to pursue solution #2 tomorrow and will
> get back.
> 
> p.

Thanks again. I created a user.css and scrollbar specs generally
work. The problem now is that there doesn't seem to be a
scrollbar hover quality for .css. Not sure how Opera achieves its
default operation.

p.

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