In this article we will be diving into the world of scrollbars. I know, it doesn’t sound too glamorous, but trust me, a well-designed page goes hand-in-hand with a matching scrollbar. The old-fashioned chrome scrollbar just doesn’t fit in as …
The first time I had my breath taken away by a humble scrollbar was on this very site. When CSS-Tricks v17 rolled out with its FAT CHONKY BOI, my jaw dropped.…
First, scrollbars are a usability and accessibility thing. Second, a rule of thumb: if an area scrolls, it should have a visible scrollbar. But the web is a big place and I like tricks, so I’m going to cover the …
How do you know a page (or any element on that page) scrolls? Well, if it has a scrollbar, that’s a pretty good indication. You might still have to scrapple with your client about “the fold” or whatever, but I …
CSS still can’t animate to auto dimensions.
.dropdown {
transition: 0.2s;
height: 0;
}
.dropdown.open {
/* the height will change, but it won't animate. */
height: auto;
}There is JavaScript trickery you can try. Brandon Smith outlined several …
Surprise: scrollbars are complicated, especially cross-browser and cross-platform.
Sometimes they take up space and sometimes they don’t. Sometimes that is affected by a setting and sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes you can see them and sometimes you can’t unless you’re actually …
The scrollbar-gutter property in CSS provides flexibility to determine how the space the browser uses to display a scrollbar that interacts with the content on the screen. The spec describes it as “reserving space for the scrollbar”. The beauty of …
Rachel hooks us up with what the CSS Working Group is talking about:
scrollbar-width and scrollbar-color. The best we have right now is proprietary WebKit stuff.
This is an interesting read on the current state of scrollbars and how to control their behavior across operating systems and browsers. The post also highlights a bunch of stuff I didn’t know about, like Element.scrollIntoView() and the scroll-behavior CSS …
Das Surma:
In this article we will leverage some unconventional CSS matrices to build a custom scroller that doesn’t require any JavaScript while scrolling, just some setup code.
If turning a scrollbar into a Nyan cat with near-perfect functionality isn’t …
