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title: CSS Scrollbars
title: CSS scrollbars styling
slug: Web/CSS/CSS_Scrollbars
page-type: css-module
spec-urls: https://w3c.github.io/csswg-drafts/css-scrollbars/
browser-compat:
- css.properties.scrollbar-width
- css.properties.scrollbar-color
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**CSS Scrollbars** standardizes the obsolete scrollbar color properties introduced in 2000 by Windows IE 5.5.
The **CSS scrollbars styling** module defines properties that you can use for visual styling of scrollbars. You can customize the width of the scrollbar as required. You can also customize the color of the scrollbar _track_, which is the background of the scrollbar, and the color of the scrollbar _thumb_, which is the draggable handle of the scrollbar.

## Basic example
## Scrollbar styling in action

In this example, we have chosen to use a thin scrollbar with a green track and purple thumb.
This example defines a thin scrollbar with a red thumb and an orange track. To view the thumb, you will need to scroll the text. After the scrollbar is visible, hover over it to see the track.

```css
.scroller {
```css hidden
.poem {
width: 300px;
height: 100px;
overflow-y: scroll;
scrollbar-color: rebeccapurple green;
scrollbar-width: thin;
border: 1px solid;
}
```

### HTML
```css
.poem {
overflow: scroll;
scrollbar-color: red orange;
scrollbar-width: thin;
}
```

```html
<div class="scroller">
Veggies es bonus vobis, proinde vos postulo essum magis kohlrabi welsh onion
daikon amaranth tatsoi tomatillo melon azuki bean garlic. Gumbo beet greens
corn soko endive gumbo gourd. Parsley shallot courgette tatsoi pea sprouts
fava bean collard greens dandelion okra wakame tomato. Dandelion cucumber
earthnut pea peanut soko zucchini.
</div>
```html hidden
<blockquote class="poem">
<h3>A Small Needful Fact</h3>
<pre>
Is that Eric Garner worked
for some time for the Parks and Rec.
Horticultural Department, which means,
perhaps, that with his very large hands,
perhaps, in all likelihood,
he put gently into the earth
some plants which, most likely,
some of them, in all likelihood,
continue to grow, continue
to do what such plants do, like house
and feed small and necessary creatures,
like being pleasant to touch and smell,
like converting sunlight
into food, like making it easier
for us to breathe.
</pre
>
<p>
- <a href="https://onbeing.org/poetry/a-small-needful-fact/">Ross Gay</a>
</p>
</blockquote>
```

### Result
{{EmbedLiveSample("Scrollbar_styling_in_action")}}

{{EmbedLiveSample("Basic_Example")}}
> **Note:** When customizing scrollbars, ensure that the thumb and track have enough contrast with the surrounding background. Also ensure that the scrollbar hit area is large enough for people who use touch input.

## Reference

### Properties
### CSS properties

- {{CSSxRef("scrollbar-width")}}
- {{CSSxRef("scrollbar-color")}}

## Accessibility concerns

When you customize scrollbars, consider they have enough contrast and that their hit area is large enough for people who use touch input.

- [Baseline Rules for Scrollbar Usability | Adrian Roselli](https://adrianroselli.com/2019/01/baseline-rules-for-scrollbar-usability.html)
## Related concepts

- {{CSSxRef("overflow-block")}} CSS property
- {{CSSxRef("overflow-inline")}} CSS property
- {{CSSxRef("overflow-x")}} CSS property
- {{CSSxRef("overflow-y")}} CSS property
- {{CSSxRef("overflow")}} CSS shorthand property
- {{CSSxRef("overflow-clip-margin")}} CSS property
- {{CSSxRef("scroll-behavior")}} CSS property
- {{CSSxRef("scrollbar-gutter")}} CSS property
- {{cssxref("scroll-margin")}} CSS shorthand property
- {{cssxref("scroll-padding")}} CSS shorthand property
- {{cssxref("scroll-snap-align")}} CSS property
- {{cssxref("scroll-snap-stop")}} CSS property
- {{cssxref("scroll-snap-type")}} CSS property
- {{CSSxRef("::-webkit-scrollbar")}} pseudo-element
- {{glossary("scroll container")}} glossary term
- {{Glossary("scrollport")}} glossary term
- [`scrollbar`](/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Roles/scrollbar_role) ARIA role

## Specifications

{{Specifications}}

## Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}

## See also

- {{CSSxRef("::-webkit-scrollbar")}}
- [CSS overflow](/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Overflow) module
- [CSS scroll snap](/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Scroll_Snap) module
- {{cssxref('scroll-timeline-name')}}, {{cssxref('scroll-timeline-axis')}}, and {{cssxref('scroll-timeline')}}