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I want to customize a scrollbar with CSS.

I use this WebKit CSS code, which works well for Safari and Chrome:

::-webkit-scrollbar {
  width: 15px;
  height: 15px;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-track-piece {
  background-color: #c2d2e4;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:vertical {
  height: 30px;
  background-color: #0a4c95;
}

How can I do the same thing in Firefox?

I know I can easily do it using jQuery, but I would prefer to do it with pure CSS if it's doable.

Alan Bagel
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Dimitri Vorontzov
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    Please share how you can do it using jQuery. I'm faced with the same problem but used CSS to fix it for Webkit. However, Firefox poses a problem that your jQuery solution may be able to help with. – Igbanam Jun 09 '12 at 03:37
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    I recommend using jscrollpane jQuery plugin. – Dimitri Vorontzov Jul 26 '12 at 12:58
  • There is an issue with jScrollPane in Firefox. jScrollPane works perfectly in Chrome but in Firefox you have an empty _system_ scrollbar to the right of the jScrollPane scrollbar. There should only be one scrollbar – Igbanam Jul 26 '12 at 15:33
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    Not true. If you have that, you did something wrong somewhere. – Dimitri Vorontzov Aug 19 '12 at 10:05
  • See my answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7357203/custom-scrollbars/32424642#32424642 – Buzinas Sep 06 '15 at 15:34
  • I would like to recommend [`fakescroll`](https://github.com/yairEO/fakescroll) - A vanilla-js tiny script for custom scrollbars – vsync Jul 05 '18 at 09:40
  • I added a solution overview: https://stackoverflow.com/a/70909679/14824067 . And why do so many use jquery ; ) – LuckyLuke Skywalker Jan 29 '22 at 21:07

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As of late 2018, there is now limited customization available in Firefox!

See these answers:

And this for background info: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1460109

There's no Firefox equivalent to ::-webkit-scrollbar and friends.

You'll have to stick with JavaScript.

Plenty of people would like this feature, see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790

As far as JavaScript replacements go, you can try:

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    Thank you, ThirtyDot. One question though: what about -moz-appearance:scrollbartrack-vertical - and other related CSS extensions? Perhaps they can be used in some way? – Dimitri Vorontzov May 29 '11 at 02:01
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    No. Unfortunately, none of the possible values for [`-moz-appearance`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/-moz-appearance) can help. `"The -moz-appearance CSS property is used in Gecko (Firefox) to display an element using a platform-native styling based on the operating system's theme."` - you'll just get a native scrollbar. – thirtydot May 29 '11 at 02:04
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    Just in case anyone reading this needs a practical solution, I ended up using jscrollpane jQuery plugin. – Dimitri Vorontzov Jun 02 '11 at 15:09
  • @Jeff: You can try https://github.com/noraesae/perfect-scrollbar or https://github.com/jnicol/trackpad-scroll-emulator. They may already have been mentioned. – thirtydot May 23 '16 at 09:14
  • The answer doesn't help to solve the problem. But you can find the solution here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25480565/how-can-i-create-custom-scrollbar-for-mozilla-firefox-with-css – Dmitry Jan 10 '17 at 22:30
  • Also, for anybody that likes to keep the browser's native scrolling dynamic, use https://github.com/Diokuz/baron, good library, far better than dicking around with jScrollPane. – thephpdev Mar 07 '18 at 09:18
  • @thephpdev There's a bug in the demo. If I scroll down all the way to the bottom and continue scrolling down, in order to scroll back up I have to scroll up the same amount I scrolled down after hitting the bottom. This happened on Chrome 65 if that means anything. Lmk if that made any sense. – Jacques Mathieu Mar 30 '18 at 17:11
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    @JacquesMathieu, I see what you mean. Though that is not Baron's fault, if I download the page and prevent baron from initialising, the bug still occurs. So it looks like Chrome it at fault here. – thephpdev Apr 03 '18 at 10:55
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    Also, it doesn't look like I had to scroll up the equivalent amount I'd scrolled down. It looks like it starts ignoring input from the mousewheel once the limit has been reached. It appears to set some kind of timeout, which is reset when mousewheel input is received, such that if you don't use the mousewheel for ~ 500ms, the lock is released. It also looks like moving the mouse away from the scrollable container, and back over again releases the lock, although that may just be the timeout. – thephpdev Apr 03 '18 at 10:55
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    This isn't even a bug. I believe this behaviour exists to stop the whole page from scrolling when the limit is reached in a scrollable element. – thephpdev Apr 03 '18 at 10:56
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    It also seems to behave this way somewhat inconsistently, also on Chrome 65. – thephpdev Apr 03 '18 at 10:58
  • @thephpdev interesting. I wonder if there is a way to disable/change this behavior, as it is something I would prefer not to happen. No need to investigate this though, as this is not a pressing issue for me at all. – Jacques Mathieu Apr 10 '18 at 17:27
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    @JacquesMathieu, well think about it. If you've got an instance of some WYSIWYG editor on a page, and you're typing out anything of reasonable length, imagine how annoying it'd be if when you scrolled to the top of the editor, it'd start scrolling the whole page up. I don't even notice the behaviour, it just feels right. And clearly you've never had an issue with it if you've only just noticed it now and thought it was a bug. – thephpdev Apr 11 '18 at 08:40
  • @thephpdev In that case, that would be the preferred behavior. However, I think I was referring to being able to change the timeout for the lock, as half a second seemed too long for me. Also, just tested this again and it works fine with no delay between scrolling down and up on Chrome 66. – Jacques Mathieu May 09 '18 at 19:00
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    @JacquesMathieu, I understand what you mean, when you do really want to scroll up in the cases where that lock occurs, it does feel disconcerting. Also, just tested the demo (also on 66), and it appears they've disabled the functionality, but only if the scrollable container is not inside another scrollable container. If you add `margin-bottom: 2000px` to the `` element so that the page becomes scrollable, the lock behaviour still exists. Though it does seem to be improved, although that may be placebo as I expected a change in behaviour. – thephpdev May 10 '18 at 08:28
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    https://drafts.csswg.org/css-scrollbars-1/ is the stage 1 start of the spec, but it's enabled in Firefox Nightly now out of the box by default. – wegry Nov 02 '18 at 15:09
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Firefox 64 adds support for the spec draft CSS Scrollbars Module Level 1, which adds two new properties of scrollbar-width and scrollbar-color which give some control over how scrollbars are displayed.

You can set scrollbar-color to one of the following values (descriptions from MDN):

  • auto Default platform rendering for the track portion of the scrollbar, in the absence of any other related scrollbar color properties.
  • <color> <color> Applies the first color to the scrollbar thumb, the second to the scrollbar track.

Previously the spec included dark and light values that were not implemented in Firefox. These values have since been removed from the spec.

On stock Android with mobile Firefox the thumb can be colored, but there is no track to color.

Additionally in macOS Firefox version prior to 99.0, the auto-hiding semi-transparent scrollbars that are the macOS default could not be styled by these rules. As of Firefox 99.0 all macOS scrollbar modes (configured under System Preferences > Show Scroll Bars) can be colored.

Visual Demo:

.scroll {
  width: 20%;
  height: 100px;
  border: 1px solid grey;
  overflow: scroll;
  display: inline-block;
}
.scroll-color-auto {
  scrollbar-color: auto;
}
.scroll-color-colors {
  scrollbar-color: orange lightyellow;
}
<div class="scroll scroll-color-auto">
  <p>auto</p><p>auto</p><p>auto</p><p>auto</p><p>auto</p><p>auto</p>
</div>

<div class="scroll scroll-color-colors">
  <p>colors</p><p>colors</p><p>colors</p><p>colors</p><p>colors</p><p>colors</p>
</div>

You can set scrollbar-width to one of the following values (descriptions from MDN):

  • auto The default scrollbar width for the platform.
  • thin A thin scrollbar width variant on platforms that provide that option, or a thinner scrollbar than the default platform scrollbar width.
  • none No scrollbar shown, however the element will still be scrollable.

You can also set a specific length value, according to the spec. Both thin and a specific length may not do anything on all platforms, and what exactly it does is platform-specific. In particular, Firefox doesn't appear to be currently support a specific length value (this comment on their bug tracker seems to confirm this). The thin keywork does appear to be well-supported however, with macOS and Windows support at-least.

On stock Android with mobile Firefox the auto width thumb is already rather thin, and thin does not make it thinner.

It's probably worth noting that the length value option and the entire scrollbar-width property are being considered for removal in a future draft, and if that happens this particular property may be removed from Firefox in a future version.

Visual Demo:

.scroll {
  width: 30%;
  height: 100px;
  border: 1px solid grey;
  overflow: scroll;
  display: inline-block;
}
.scroll-width-auto {
  scrollbar-width: auto;
}
.scroll-width-thin {
  scrollbar-width: thin;
}
.scroll-width-none {
  scrollbar-width: none;
}
<div class="scroll scroll-width-auto">
<p>auto</p><p>auto</p><p>auto</p><p>auto</p><p>auto</p><p>auto</p>
</div>

<div class="scroll scroll-width-thin">
<p>thin</p><p>thin</p><p>thin</p><p>thin</p><p>thin</p><p>thin</p>
</div>

<div class="scroll scroll-width-none">
<p>none</p><p>none</p><p>none</p><p>none</p><p>none</p><p>none</p>
</div>
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    Thanks for this answer. I've updated my accepted answer to promote this (and the other relevant answer) so that people are more likely to see it. – thirtydot Jan 09 '19 at 17:05
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    This essentially duplicates [Luca's answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/53739309/712334) from three weeks prior. – vhs Feb 07 '19 at 05:26
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    @JoshHabdas That answer does not contain nearly as much compatibility or usage information. I created this answer because the other answer didn't have the important information I was looking for. – Alexander O'Mara Feb 07 '19 at 07:22
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    You could give them credit, suggest feedback or consider editing their answer. – vhs Feb 07 '19 at 07:43
  • @JoshHabdas A radical edit like that would seem inappropriate. I also didn't use their answer to compose this answer, I first learned about it through the Firefox release notes, then later found this Q&A which didn't have any of the information I had researched. – Alexander O'Mara Feb 07 '19 at 07:48
  • I believe upvotes are based on usefulness, so no worries. You may chose not to credit or acknowledge their answer but I don't see much usefulness in duplicates, which this essentially is. – vhs Feb 07 '19 at 07:49
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    @JoshHabdas Well, 5 people already found it useful, and it contains information not found anywhere else on the web, so I disagree. – Alexander O'Mara Feb 07 '19 at 07:51
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    if they made `scrollbar-width: thin` why couldn't they make `scrollbar-width: thick`? – xinthose Apr 29 '21 at 20:12
  • need to add the class to html tag not body tag for firefox (if u want thin scrollbar on body) – danday74 Aug 25 '21 at 23:16
  • "The auto-hiding semi-transparent scrollbars that are the macOS default cannot be colored with this rule (they still choose their own contrasting color based on the background). Only the permanently showing scrollbars (System Preferences > Show Scroll Bars > Always) are colored." :facepalm: – Kraken Apr 04 '22 at 13:11
  • @AlexanderO'Mara I'm trying to understand how this works, when I look at your code snippet on FF, the scrollbar in the first container looks different from the second, there are no directional arrow buttons showing on hover. I'm currently trying to remove the FF scrollbar hover styles, doesn't show when not over, shows thin when over the container, but then if I hover over the scrollbar, there are more styles I can't seem to get to work on FF. – Tyler Dec 10 '22 at 20:37
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    @Tyler How it works is browser and operating system dependent. You basically have two properties you can suggest, colors and width. What the browser does with is depends on the browser and how it customizes the scrollbars of the OS. – Alexander O'Mara Dec 11 '22 at 01:20
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Since Firefox 64, is possible to use new specs for a simple Scrollbar styling (not as complete as in Chrome with vendor prefixes).

In this example is possible to see a solution that combine different rules to address both Firefox and Chrome with a similar (not equal) final result (example use your original Chrome rules):

The key rules are:

For Firefox

.scroller {
  overflow-y: scroll;
  scrollbar-color: #0A4C95 #C2D2E4;
}

For Chrome

.scroller::-webkit-scrollbar {
    width: 15px;
    height: 15px;
}

.scroller::-webkit-scrollbar-track-piece  {
    background-color: #C2D2E4;
}

.scroller::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:vertical {
    height: 30px;
    background-color: #0A4C95;
}

Please note that respect to your solution, is possible to use also simpler Chrome rules as the following:

.scroller::-webkit-scrollbar-track  {
    background-color: #C2D2E4;
}

.scroller::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
    height: 30px;
    background-color: #0A4C95;
}

Finally, in order to hide arrows in scrollbars also in Firefox, currently is necessary to set it as "thin" with the following rule scrollbar-width: thin;

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May I offer an alternative?

No scripting whatsoever, only standardized css styles and a little bit of creativity. Short answer - masking parts of the existing browser scrollbar, which means you retain all of it's functionality.

.scroll_content {
    position: relative;
    width: 400px;
    height: 414px;
    top: -17px;
    padding: 20px 10px 20px 10px;
    overflow-y: auto;
}

For demo and a little bit more in-depth explanation, check here...

jsfiddle.net/aj7bxtjz/1/

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    This doesn't answer the question, unfortunately. Dimitri is trying to style the scrollbar, not hide it. – stvnrynlds May 26 '15 at 17:32
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    That was 4 years ago (I'm aware of that) so I'm sure he already did something by now. But the topic is still relevant today - while other browsers allow some type of "illegal" modification of scrollbars, FF doesn't. That's why I decided to post it.And the front-end result is visually styling scrollbar, regardless of the fact that the way to do it is hiding part of it. – Tomaz May 27 '15 at 17:18
  • i love this solution except for all the extra markup with absolute positioning (makes variable size stuff a nightmare) plus you cannot actually change the style, you are simply masking/hiding elements of the existing scroller - too bad if i want a green bar! – RozzA Oct 01 '15 at 22:38
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    yea, after four years, it's not about answering the OP's question as much as it is contributing to the community. – tmthyjames Oct 02 '15 at 19:44
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    The essence of the problem is that the solutions provided by some rendering engines are non-standard. This is the question that best addresses my concerns and this is the answer I was scrolling for. – Filip Dupanović Apr 05 '16 at 10:23
  • This is unfortunately a fickle solution as you have hard-coded the size of the size of the scrollbar—and that can change based on accessibility settings among other reasons. – vhs Feb 07 '19 at 05:28
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Year 2020 this works

/* Thin Scrollbar */
:root{
  scrollbar-color: rgb(210,210,210) rgb(46,54,69) !important;
  scrollbar-width: thin !important;
}

https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx/issues/160

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I thought I would share my findings in case someone is considering a jQuery plugin to do the job.

I gave jQuery Custom Scrollbar a go. It's pretty fancy and does some smooth scrolling (with scrolling inertia) and has loads of parameters you can tweak, but it ended up being a bit too CPU intensive for me (and it adds a fair amount to the DOM).

Now I'm giving Perfect Scrollbar a go. It's simple and lightweight (6 KB) and it's doing a decent job so far. It's not CPU intensive at all (as far as I can tell) and adds very little to your DOM. It's only got a couple of parameters to tweak (wheelSpeed and wheelPropagation), but it's all I need and it handles updates to the scrolling content nicely (such as loading images).

P.S. I did have a quick look at JScrollPane, but @simone is right, it's a bit dated now and a PITA.

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    There's also [trackpad scroll emulator](https://github.com/jnicol/trackpad-scroll-emulator) -- it's what twitch.tv uses. – forivall Mar 26 '14 at 19:03
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    Perfect Scrollbar is actually really good. After exhausting many other options, I found it to be the best solution. Thanks for suggesting it. – Leonard Teo Jul 16 '14 at 20:38
  • nanoScroller is also really good, and relatively lean. https://jamesflorentino.github.io/nanoScrollerJS/ Opposed to the heavy JS plugins, this one simply hides the native scroller, and shows an alternate scroller using the native 'scroll' event – Danny R Aug 19 '15 at 16:20
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    i've been avoiding all of the jquery solutions, since they *all* lag out on slower machines or machines under stress, but PS looks like a winner – RozzA Oct 02 '15 at 11:05
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As of now, 2021, there are just two properties for Firefox scrollbar customization available; scrollbar-color and scrollbar width.

scrollbar-color: red yellow; /* track thumb */
scrollbar-width: 5px; /* none, thin, or auto */


.demo {
  overflow-y: scroll;
}

.demo {
  scrollbar-color: red yellow;
  scrollbar-width: 10px;
}
<div class="demo">
  <p>
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CSS

.demo {
    overflow-y: scroll;
}

.demo {
    scrollbar-color: red yellow;
    scrollbar-width: 5px;
}
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    `scrollbar-width` only supports 3 values: `none`, `thin` and `auto` - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scrollbar-width – ivanjermakov Oct 08 '20 at 08:13
  • the right order is (thumb , track) not (track,thumb) – Ahmed Taha Oct 20 '21 at 01:12
  • And the position of scrollbar inside element effects the inner elements width.it will take 15px when scrollbar presents. This makes inner elements width related styles inconsistent when we set the overflow to auto. :( – Naredla Nithesh Reddy Mar 15 '22 at 10:36
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Year 2022

Tested with the latest Firefox and Chrome versions

The following snippet will display the same scrollbar styles on Chrome and Firefox, try it out.

html {
  /* For Firefox */
  overflow-y: scroll;
  scrollbar-color: #008de4 #0d3b97;
  scrollbar-width: thin;
}

/* For Chrome and other browsers except Firefox */
body::-webkit-scrollbar {
    width: 0.5em;
    background-color: #0d3b97;
}
body::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
    background-color: #008de4;
}
<html>
<body style="height: 600px"></body>
</html>

You can also customize the scrollbar track using the following (but it will not work for Firefox)

::-webkit-scrollbar-track
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  • But still there are few things which needs improvement from firefox side. Like, When you have the overflow content, scrollbar is coming inside the control. this effects the inner elements width, where as in chrome the control size will be unaltered and the scrollbar will get added at the edge of control. – Naredla Nithesh Reddy Mar 15 '22 at 10:34
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Here I have tried this CSS for all major browser & tested: Custom color are working fine on scrollbar.

Yes, there are limitations on several versions of different browsers.

/* Only Chrome */
html::-webkit-scrollbar {width: 17px;}
html::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {background-color: #0064a7; background-clip: padding-box; border: 1px solid #8ea5b5;}
html::-webkit-scrollbar-track {background-color: #8ea5b5; }
::-webkit-scrollbar-button {background-color: #8ea5b5;}
/* Only IE */
html {scrollbar-face-color: #0064a7; scrollbar-shadow-color: #8ea5b5; scrollbar-highlight-color: #8ea5b5;}
/* Only FireFox */
html {scrollbar-color: #0064a7 #8ea5b5;}
/* View Scrollbar */
html {overflow-y: scroll;overflow-x: hidden;}
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Keyword values scrollbar-width: auto|thin|none;

Global values scrollbar-width: inherit|initial|revert|revert-layer; scrollbar-width: unset;

Firefox 84 was released on December 15, 2020. Removed Properties are as follows:

Removed proprietary -moz-default-appearance property values scrollbar-small (scrollbar-width: thin is used instead) and scrollbar (macOS only; scrollbar-horizontal and scrollbar-vertical are used instead) (bug 1673132).

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This feature is heavily experimental and I guess Mozilla has a lot to do until it becomes usable for everyone on every page. I have tested many solutions but the following code is working perfectly.

CSS

:root {
  scrollbar-color: #333333 #999999 !important;
  scrollbar-width: thin !important;
}

OR

#ClassName {
  scrollbar-color: #333333 #999999 !important;
  scrollbar-width: thin !important;
}

Reference: LINK 1 LINK 2

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Firefox only accepts:

scrollbar-color: #F8F8F8 // Add your color
scroll-bar-width: thin/auto/none
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Firefox

.nav{
scrollbar-width: 0px;
scrollbar-width: none;}

Chrome

::-webkit-scrollbar {
  height: 0;  /* Remove scrollbar space */
  background: transparent;  
/* Optional: just make scrollbar invisible */
}

for vertical and horizontal scrollbar change the width or height attribute

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The short answer:

Only the following work(s)

in firefox (as of JAN 2022):

:

property (not pseudo element!) allowed values
scrollbar-width thin (actually very thin)
auto (standard thick version)
none (hides the scrollbar)
scrollbar-color color color

:

You have to set both color values, first scrollbar thumb , second the scrollbar background. It takes any normal color values, using names like "black", hex-values like "#000000", functions like "rgb(0,0,0) as well as variables like "var(--previouslydefinedblack)". BUT it does not take linear gradients as input, neither normally nor via css variable. The order of the properties is unimportant by the way.

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  • For the standard scrollbar use these via the html selector. And please comment in case sth changes. – LuckyLuke Skywalker Jan 29 '22 at 21:00
  • (offtopic: in chrome it still works like this btw: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::-webkit-scrollbar and bear in mind that https://stackoverflow.com/a/67902128/14824067 ) – LuckyLuke Skywalker Jan 29 '22 at 21:11
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It works in user-style, and it seems not to work in web pages. I have not found official direction from Mozilla on this. While it may have worked at some point, Firefox does not have official support for this. This bug is still open https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790

scrollbar {
/*  clear useragent default style*/
   -moz-appearance: none !important;
}
/* buttons at two ends */
scrollbarbutton {
   -moz-appearance: none !important;
}
/* the sliding part*/
thumb{
   -moz-appearance: none !important;
}
scrollcorner {
   -moz-appearance: none !important;
   resize:both;
}
/* vertical or horizontal */
scrollbar[orient="vertical"] {
    color:silver;
}

check http://codemug.com/html/custom-scrollbars-using-css/ for details.

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This Works on Wordpress Guys Custom CSS

/* Fire-Fox Scrollbar */
:root{
  scrollbar-face-color: rgb(176, 88, 54); /* Firefox 63 compatibility */
  scrollbar-track-color: rgb(51, 62, 72); /* Firefox 63 compatibility */
  scrollbar-color: rgb(176, 88, 54) rgb(51, 62, 72);
  scrollbar-width: auto;
}

Ref: https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx/issues/160

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.mat-tab-header {
   overflow-x: scroll !important;
   // For Firefox
   scrollbar-color: transparent transparent;
   border-bottom: none; 
}
    
.mat-tab-header::-webkit-scrollbar { // TO Remove horizontal scrollbar in tabs
   display: none !important;
}
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