invisible scrollbars

[unpunk]

I've seen some sites with invisible scroll bars, where you can see background colours or images under the scroll bar. I simply cannot figure out how to do it.

Anyone wanting to answer to this for me should know that I do know how to make coloured scroll bars and css style sheets and everything.


nys
http://fanged-duck.net/unpunk

[A1ien51]

they would have done it in javascript since you can not have the scrollbars be invisible. Look on dynamic drive and they have scripts like it. Bad thing is if your visitor does not have js enabled, they can not see what is hidden on your page.

[zoobie]

True, alien...but 97% of users have it enabled I read somewhere. :D

[cg9com]

you mean translucent scrollbars?
are you sure they didnt just color it so it appeared to flow with the page colors?

[l3vi]

What site did you see this on? Are you sure they didnt just not get rid of the scroll bar completely?

[unpunk]

thanks everyone for trying to help me out
actually I found a tutorial for the invisable scrollbar, no it's not just blending the scollbar into the background with colour, or done with javascript, it's html, and very easy.
If you'd like to use the script, you can go to http://www.undefined.nu/emily/tutorialtransparentscroll.html and you can see it on my website http://fanged-duck.net/unpunk

It only works with iframes, but thats ok, because thats what I needed it for! :)

Basically, it removes all color that you specify, ie #33cc00, which is what I used. then you just colour code the scroll bar, putting the colour you removed whever you want it to be transparent.

[cg9com]

ooooh okay, i see what you mean now, thats neat.
however the filter attribute will only work in IE ...

[A1ien51]

IE has some neat filters, esp. with text.........

[Shecky]

I would have never throught of using a chroma filter to get rid of the scroll bar color.... oddly, i have tested the chroma filter on transparent iframes before.

Just for fun once i used to to remove all the white backround color from the page i loaded (yahoo or google or something.) Unfortunately it treats the page just like an image, and any white thats blended over by font smoothing is gunna cause that white jagged outline on you text. I'm sure theres some kinda java/css expression you can use to just tell the page to have style="background-color:transparent" Still, it mostly useless and just for fun anyway :)