Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/03/70 12:00

vunet wrote:
> On Jan 15, 11:51 am, "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4...@centralva.net>
> wrote:
>> vunet wrote:
>>> IE6 has a bug: when I drag some div element which contains colored
>>> scrollbars, it crashes. I found an article describing this:
>>> http://www.activewidgets.com/javascript.forum.18969.1/ie-6-crashes-wi...
>>> How can I use CSS to tell to apply colored scrollbars to the page
>>> only, not any element inside of the page such as div, iframe, etc.?
>> You don't. No other browser will even let you style them in the first place.

<snip my signature>

>
> What I meant is applying scrollbar style to html, body but not any
> other element such as div in IE (IE ONLY, of course)
>
> html,body {
> scrollbar-base-color: #9999cc;
> }
> div {
> scrollbar-base-color: ;
> }
>
> But this did not work... You got my idea, didn't you?

Got it, really. Scrollbars are considered part of the browser chrome,
stick to web standard and do yourself a favor. If you are looking for
constancy in MS you are in a world of hurt, only takes a quick scan of
the NG to see the evidence. Avoid proprietary properties

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/propidx.html

and save yourself some grief.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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