Posted by Mitja Trampus on 06/16/27 11:43

The Numerator wrote:
> Here's the dilemma:
>
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>
> But, the scrollbar [coloring] doesn't work. Then I took the DOCTYPE off, and it
> worked, but the body was all messed up... Could someone tell me whats
> going on and a offer a possible alternative? Thanks.

Although I hardly agree with the bickering style of some of the responses you got, they
are in their essence right:
1) don't mess with user's browser
2) use standard css - scrollbar-face-color is not

Number one could be subject to debate, but not being standards-compliant is indeed what's
causing you trouble. If you include the DOCTYPE, browsers try to follow the standards, and
this also means ignoring the scrollbar-face-color directive. If you omit the DOCTYPE,
browsers jump into "quirks mode", allowing non-standard extension, but also behaving
strange in other ways - that's why the rest of the page gets garbled.

See http://www.quirksmode.org/index.html?/css/quirksmode.html for more.

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