-ms-scrollbar-base-color property (Internet Explorer)

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-ms-scrollbar-base-color property

[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]

Sets or retrieves the color of the main elements of a scroll bar, which include the scroll box, track, and scroll arrows.

Syntax

-ms-scrollbar-base-color: variant

Property values

variant: A VARIANT that specifies or receives any color name or RGB values in the Color Table.

CSS information

Applies To	All elements
Media	visual
Inherited	1
Initial Value

Standards information

There are no standards that apply here.

Remarks

Windows Internet Explorer 8. The -ms-scrollbar-base-color attribute is an extension to CSS, and can be used as a synonym for scrollbar-base-color in IE8 Standards mode.

The scroll box is the square box within a scroll bar that can be moved either up and down or left and right on a track to change the position of the content on the screen. The scroll arrows, located at each end of a scroll bar, are the square buttons containing the arrows that move the content on the screen in small increments, either up and down or left and right.

This property applies to elements that display a scroll bar. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) enable scrolling on all objects through the overflow property. These objects are not listed in the Applies To list for this property.

The -ms-scrollbar-base-color property is a composite property. You can use separate properties to specify each of the individual properties, but in many cases it is more convenient to set them in one place using this composite property.

Examples

The following example shows how to create a style rule that sets the -ms-scrollbar-base-color property for a textArea element.

Code example: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/scrollbarColor.htm


<HTML>
  <HEAD>
    <STYLE>
        TEXTAREA.BlueScrollbar  { scrollbar-base-color:blue }
    </STYLE>
  </HEAD>  
  <BODY>
    <TEXTAREA CLASS="BlueScrollbar">The scroll bar for 
    this element will be blue.</TEXTAREA>
  </BODY>
</HTML>

The following style rule uses the -ms-scrollbar-base-color attribute as part of a coordinated color theme. Earth tones are specified for all the elements defined in the style rule.

Code example: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/scrollbarBaseColor.htm


<STYLE>
  BODY { scrollbar-base-color:darkolivegreen; background-color:tan }
  H1 { color:bisque }			
  P { color:darkslategray }
</STYLE>