First of all, one of the great things about WordPress is it’s lack of tables for design. Tables are for data not design.
Do you want to change the colors of the scrollbar on the user’s browser? Most people frown on that but you can search the Internet and find information on that old technique. It doesn’t apply to WordPress.
The “look” of WordPress is controlled through the use of CSS and that information is found in the style.css style sheet file in your WordPress Theme.
If you want to change the look of the Theme you are using, there are more than 300 Themes to choose from. You can learn more about them, customizing them, and changing them, at:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons
http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout
Hi, yes I want to change the colour of the scroll bar. I already have the tags for it and I just want to know which file to insert it in.
I looked in the admin panel of wordpress and I could not find the style.css file.
As for the theme, I like the theme I’m currently using but just wondering if it’s possible to increase it’s width so that it will match my site.
Any ideas?
You can access styles.css from the admin panel. Its under Presentation > Theme editor. On the right there should be the files of your theme your using, and one of which will be styles.css.
If the styles.css has this line:
html {
}
Place it inbetween the { and } remembering to end the line for each attribute with a semicolon. If that entry doesnt’ exist just add it to the end of the file.
Just remember that forcing the site to be 1024 pixels wide will cause a horizontal scrollbar to appear for maybe 90% of the people who go to look at your site.
I’m not 100% certain and I’ve never actually done it but I thought that the concept of coloured scrollbars is an Internet Exploder thing. Other browsers don’t bother, apparently because it’s non-standard CSS.
That’s true, pizdin_dim – but some folks really only have users accessing their blogs with IE, so the scrollbars thing works fine for them.
It doesn’t hurt anything if Barbara wants to use scrollbar styling for her IE-using visitors – the other browsers simply ignore that part of the css.
From HTML Source:
“Styling the scrollbars is only supported by Internet Explorer 5.5+. It will not work in Netscape or other browsers or earlier versions, but it won’t mess them up either. Gooood. The properties are non-standard CSS, and will stop your site’s stylesheet from validating. It’s not that big a deal, but purists beware.”
Lovely!
