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Now use this code (and many variations of this), but scroll track get dark-grey color, something like #222222 or near this. Find many examples, but all of them give same result. Opera, Chrome and Firefox show this bug. How to fix?

#style-3::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
    -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 0 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
    background-color: transparent;
}

#style-3::-webkit-scrollbar {
    width: 6px;
    background-color: transparent;
}

#style-3::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
    background-color: #000000;
}
John
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11 Answers11

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If you use this:

body {
    overflow: overlay;
}

The scrollbar will then also take transparent backgrounds across the page. This will also put the scrollbar inside the page instead of removing some of the width to put in the scrollbar.

Here is a demo code. I wasn't able to put it inside any of the codepen or jsfiddle, apparantly it took me a while until I figured out, but they don't show the transparency, and I don't know why.

But putting this in a HTML file should go fine.

Was able to put it on fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/3awLgj5v/

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<style>
html, body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

body {
  overflow: overlay;
}

.div1 {
  background: grey;
  margin-top: 200px;
  margin-bottom: 20px;
  height: 20px;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar {
  width: 10px;
  height: 10px;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
  background: rgba(90, 90, 90);
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
  background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
}
</style>
  
<body>

<div class="div1"></div>

<div class="div1"></div>

<div class="div1"></div>

<div class="div1"></div>

<div class="div1"></div>
  

</body>
</html>

Best way to test it is to create a local html file, I guess.

You can also apply that on other elements, such as any scrolling box. While using inspector mode, it could be that you have to put the overflow to hidden and then back to anything else. It probably needed to refresh. After that it should be possible working on scrollbar without having to refresh it again. Just note that was for the inspector mode.

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    The `overlay` value is now deprecated. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/overflow#Values – Simon Baumgardt-Wellander Feb 06 '20 at 20:17
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    How can I achieve this effect on a div element? – Maciej Bledkowski May 05 '20 at 01:44
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    I can't get this to work on any element other than – Nick Retallack May 20 '20 at 21:24
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    Ouch. I was so happy seeing this solution work and then verified @SimonBaumgardt-Wellander's comment that `overlay` is, in fact, deprecated. "Behaves the same as auto, but with the scrollbars drawn on top of content instead of taking up space. Only supported in WebKit-based (e.g., Safari) and Blink-based (e.g., Chrome or Opera) browsers." The lack of browser support might have been why you two, @MaciejBledkowski and @nick-retallack, couldn't see it working – Ariella Apr 15 '21 at 19:34
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With pure css it is not possible to make it transparent. You have to use transparent background image like this:

::-webkit-scrollbar-track-piece:start {
    background: transparent url('images/backgrounds/scrollbar.png') repeat-y !important;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-track-piece:end {
    background: transparent url('images/backgrounds/scrollbar.png') repeat-y !important;
}
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Void Spirit
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    This is the first accurate statement regarding background colors on tracks. So many examples of people assuming it works without actually testing it. Thanks! – sinrise May 05 '16 at 17:54
  • This didn't work when I tried creating a 4x4 px transparent PNG and using that – binaryfunt Sep 11 '18 at 22:06
  • @binaryfunt can't remember exactly but it was working fine that time. Try other dimensions – Void Spirit Sep 14 '18 at 17:42
  • the approach using transparent png does not work with FireFox – Terry Jan 03 '20 at 02:18
  • @Terry of course it doesn't work in firefox. This is webkit only styling, and firefox is not a webkit based browser – tel Jun 09 '20 at 21:09
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    .scrollable-content {
      overflow-x:hidden;
      overflow-y:scroll; // manage scrollbar content overflow settings
    }
    .scrollable-content::-webkit-scrollbar {
      width:30px; // manage scrollbar width here
    }
    .scrollable-content::-webkit-scrollbar * {
      background:transparent; // manage scrollbar background color here
    }
    .scrollable-content::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
      background:rgba(255,0,0,0.1) !important; // manage scrollbar thumb background color here
    }
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3

Embed this code in your css.

::-webkit-scrollbar {
    width: 0px;
}

/* Track */

::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
    -webkit-box-shadow: none;
}

/* Handle */

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
    background: white;
    -webkit-box-shadow: none;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:window-inactive {
    background: none;
}
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0

Try this one, it works fine for me.

In CSS:

::-webkit-scrollbar
{
    width: 0px;
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-track-piece
{
    background-color: transparent;
    -webkit-border-radius: 6px;
}

and here is the working demo: https://jsfiddle.net/qpvnecz5/

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    The background color is not being applied. The reason it's "invisible" is because of the width. I know this because I have tried setting the background color to transparent and it does not work, plus you misspelled 'color' in your fiddle. :D – sinrise May 05 '16 at 17:51
0

To control the background-color of the scrollbar, you need to target the primary element, instead of -track.

::-webkit-scrollbar {
    background-color: blue;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
    -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 0 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
}

I haven't succeeded in rendering it transparent, but I did manage to set its color.

Since this is limited to webkit, it is still preferable to use JS with a polyfill: CSS customized scroll bar in div

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0

Just set display:none; as an attribute in your stylesheet ;)
It's way better than loading pictures for nothing.

body::-webkit-scrollbar {
  width: 9px;
  height: 9px;
}

body::-webkit-scrollbar-button:start:decrement,
body::-webkit-scrollbar-button:end:increment {
  display: block;
  height: 0;
  background-color: transparent;
}

body::-webkit-scrollbar-track-piece {
  background-color: #ffffff;
  opacity: 0.2;

  /* Here */
  display: none;

  -webkit-border-radius: 0;
  -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 14px;
  -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 14px;
}

body::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:vertical {
  height: 50px;
  background-color: #333333;
  -webkit-border-radius: 8px;
}
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0

if you don't have any content with 100% width, you can set the background color of the track to the same color of the body's background

0

It might be too late, but still. For those who have not been helped by any method I suggest making custom scrollbar bar in pure javascript.

For a start, disable the standard scrollbar in style.css

::-webkit-scrollbar{
    width: 0;
}

Now let's create the scrollbar container and the scrollbar itself

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="ru">
<head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/>
    
 ...meta
</head>

<body id="body">

<div class="custom_scroll">
    <div id="scroll_block" class="scroll_block"></div>
</div>

...content
<script src="main.js"></script>
<script>customScroll();</script>
</body>
</html>

at the same time, we will connect the customScroll() function, and create it in the file main.js

 function customScroll() {
    let scrollBlock = document.getElementById("scroll_block");
    let body = document.getElementById("body");
    let screenSize = screen.height - scrollBlock.offsetHeight;
    document.addEventListener("scroll", () => {
        scrollBlock.style.top = (window.pageYOffset / body.offsetHeight * (screenSize + (screenSize * (body.offsetHeight - (body.offsetHeight - screen.height)) / (body.offsetHeight - screen.height)) )) + "px";
    });
    setScroll(scrollBlock, body);
}

function setScroll(scrollBlock, body) {
    let newPos = 0, lastPos = 0;
        scrollBlock.onmousedown = onScrollSet;
        scrollBlock.onselectstart = () => {return false;};

    function onScrollSet(e) {
        e = e || window.event;
        lastPos = e.clientY;
        document.onmouseup = stopScroll;
        document.onmousemove = moveScroll;
        return false;
    }

    function moveScroll(e) {
        e = e || window.event;
        newPos = lastPos - e.clientY;
        lastPos = e.clientY;
        if(scrollBlock.offsetTop - newPos >= 0 && scrollBlock.offsetTop - newPos <= Math.ceil(screen.height - scrollBlock.offsetHeight)) {
            window.scrollBy(0, -newPos / screen.height *  body.offsetHeight);
        }
    }

    function stopScroll() {
        document.onmouseup = null;
        document.onmousemove = null;
    }
}

adding styles for the scrollbar

.custom_scroll{
    width: 0.5vw;
    height: 100%;
    position: fixed;
    right: 0;
    z-index: 100;
}

.scroll_block{
    width: 0.5vw;
    height: 20vh;
    background-color: #ffffff;
    z-index: 101;
    position: absolute;
    border-radius: 4px;
}

Done!

scrollbar

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    Your JS code is incomplete. There is a lot of undeclared variables such as "screenHeight" or documentSite. – Cedervall Jun 21 '21 at 09:33
0

The standard way to do this (which currently only works in Firefox) is:

:root {
  scrollbar-color: transparent transparent;
}
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0

I was able to get a transparent background, and transparent scroll bar like this:

::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
  border-radius: 10px;
  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
}

::-webkit-scrollbar {
  width: 12px;
  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
  border-radius: 10px;
  background-color: rgba(33, 37, 41, 0.45); // change 0.45 to 0 to make it invisible
}

Also you can add this to your body element, to display your scroll bar above the website content:

overflow: overlay;
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