Re: <!DOCTYPE> and CSS Scroll bar

The Numerator wrote:

Here's the dilemma:

[snip code]

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...uirksmode.html for more.

On 26/03/2006 14:38, Mitja Trampus wrote:

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If you include the DOCTYPE, browsers try to follow the standards,

True.

and this also means ignoring the scrollbar-face-color directive.

That isn't the case for IE, though it would appear to be for Opera.

[snip]

Mike

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Michael Winter wrote:

On 26/03/2006 14:38, Mitja Trampus wrote:

[snip]

If you include the DOCTYPE, browsers try to follow the standards,
and this also means ignoring the scrollbar-face-color directive.

That isn't the case for IE, though it would appear to be for Opera.

I stand corrected
I wrote that without testing it, relying on OT saying that he doesn't get colored
srollbars if he removes the doctype. Apparently he does care about Opera...

I should perhaps also have mentioned that scrollbar-face-color is a no-go with
Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape.

Once upon a time *The Numerator* wrote:

Thanks...

To what?
Those ?&%¤#" Google users!

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