[ervier]

Is it possible to apply styles in CSS to a scrollbar or dropdownlist in a form-element in html?

[zorn]

I seen both on windows ie, some on ie for mac and some on NN for both but befinatly shakey.

Truth be told its a very questionable practice as I don't think it under the offical CSS rules, but i thik MS does it anyway.

Check out the source of ffonline.com for some samples and umichmug.org ' s vBulletin BB forum (esp post new thread form) for even more.

My recommendation is to KISS (Keep it simple, stupid) and do those style addition once in a while and don't be surprised if everyone don't see them.

~ Mike

[philzilla]

Originally posted by ervier:
<STRONG>Is it possible to apply styles in CSS to a scrollbar or dropdownlist in a form-element in html?</STRONG>

for scrollbars:
body { scrollbar-face-color: #666666;
scrollbar-highlight-color: #999999;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #333333;
scrollbar-3dlight-color: #999999;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #666666;
scrollbar-track-color: #ffffff;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #333333; }

for dropdownlists and form-elements:
select, option, textarea, input {FONT-FAMILY:verdana,arial;color:#ffffff; FONT-SIZE: 12px; background-color:#333333}

i hope that's what you meant?

[Millennium]

As has been pointed out here, it can be done via nonstandard extensions to CSS, but it will only work in IE5.5/Windows and higher.

Everyone else will just see plain old scrollbars (not really all that bad, since that won't render the page unusable). At least it shouldn't break anything, though one can never be certain with NS4.

[peterthorn]

A note to applying style to form elements:
In my experience the style has to be applied every time in the element (i.e. input type=text style="xx:xx") - it won't work if it's defined in the top of the page. Quite annoying!

Peter