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scrollbarFaceColor style property

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Specifies or returns the color for the face of the scroll bar.

To manipulate the scrollbar displaying status, use the overflow property.

Syntax:

object.scrollbarFaceColor;

You can find the related objects in the Supported by objects section below.

This property is read/write.

CSS page for this property: scrollbar-face-color

Possible values:

The type of this property is string.

One of the following values:

color

Color for the face. For the supported color values, see the colors page.

inherit

Takes the value of this property from the computed style of the parent element.

Default: this property has no default value.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the scrollbar-face-color property:

<head>
    <style>
        .newScrollBar {
            scrollbar-3dlight-color: #4FBDDD;
            scrollbar-arrow-color: #EEE1AE;
            scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #000000;
            scrollbar-face-color: #A0CCE0;
            scrollbar-highlight-color: #F8F2DC;
            scrollbar-shadow-color: #176F99;
            scrollbar-track-color: #E7F2FA;

            overflow: scroll;
            width: 200px;
            height: 167px;
            border: 1px solid #cccccc;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="newScrollBar">
        Look at the colors of the scroll-bars.<br />
        ....................................................<br />
        ....................................................<br />
        Look at the colors of the scroll-bars.<br />
        ....................................................<br />
        ....................................................<br />
        Look at the colors of the scroll-bars.<br />
    </div>
</body>

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Example HTML code 2:

This example illustrates the use of the scrollbar style properties and the ChooseColorDlg method:

<head>
    <style>
        .example {
            scrollbar-3dlight-color: #4FBDDD;
            scrollbar-arrow-color: #EEE1AE;
            scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #000000;
            scrollbar-face-color: #A0CCE0;
            scrollbar-highlight-color: #F8F2DC;
            scrollbar-shadow-color: #176F99;
            scrollbar-track-color: #E7F2FA;
            overflow: scroll;
            width: 200px;
            height: 167px;
        }
    </style>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        function CallColorDlg (button){
            try {
                    // the name of the style property (scrollbar...)
                var colorAttr = button.innerHTML;
                    // the sample div element
                var sample = document.getElementById ("sample");            
                    // the init color for the color dialog
                var initColor = sample.style.getAttribute (colorAttr);

                    // calls the color dialog object
                var dlgHelper = document.getElementById ("dlgHelper");
                var selectedColor = dlgHelper.ChooseColorDlg (initColor);
                sample.style.setAttribute (colorAttr, selectedColor);
            }
            catch (e) {
                alert ("Your browser does not support this example!");
            }
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
        <!-- The Dialog Helper Object for the ChooseColorDlg method -->
    <object id="dlgHelper" classid="clsid:3050f819-98b5-11cf-bb82-00aa00bdce0b" width="0px" height="0px"></object>
    
    <div id="sample" class="example" nowrap="nowrap">
        Change scrollbar color with <br /> the buttons below
        <br /><br />
        ....................................................
        <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
    </div>
    <div style="width: 250px; padding-top:30px;">
        <button onclick="CallColorDlg (this);">scrollbar3dLightColor</button>
        <button onclick="CallColorDlg (this);">scrollbarArrowColor</button>
        <button onclick="CallColorDlg (this);">scrollbarDarkShadowColor</button>
        <button onclick="CallColorDlg (this);">scrollbarFaceColor</button>
        <button onclick="CallColorDlg (this);">scrollbarHighlightColor</button>
        <button onclick="CallColorDlg (this);">scrollbarShadowColor</button>
        <button onclick="CallColorDlg (this);">scrollbarTrackColor</button>
    </div>
</body>