How to create custom scroll-bar in a div by JQuery

Published on : April 6, 2015

Author: wahid

Category: Jquery

This blog post will show how to create custom scroll in a div. Normally when we fixed width for a div and the style for the div is overflow: scroll it shows default scroll. Today we describe how we can customize this scroll.

Demo code

HTML

<html>
	<head>
		<title>create custom scroll</title>
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
	</head>
	
	<body>
		<div class="div">
			<div class="inner-div">
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				</p>
			</div>
		</div>
	</body>
</html>

CSS

.div{
	position:relative;
	float:left;
	width:600px;
	overflow:scroll;
	overflow-y:hidden;
}

Now take a look about the output

Focus on red marked portion. You can see scrollbar. Let’s customize this scrollbar.

I used a plugin to customize this scroll bar. You need some files to customize scrollbar.

jquery.mCustomScrollbar.contact.min.js

jquery.mCustomScrollbar.css

jquery-1.10.2.js

Now the question is where we can find these files.

you can download first two files from here:

jQuery custom content scroller

There are many other files also. you just need those two files. you can download jquery-1.10.2.js from this link:

Download jQuery

Now add some link in the html file.

After added new link in the html file

HTML

<head>
	<title>create custom scroll</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">

	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="jquery.mCustomScrollbar.css">
	<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
</head>

add a id content_1 on the div

<div class="div"  id="content_1">

add some scripts at the bottom before end of body tag

<!-- custom scrollbars plugin -->
<script src="jquery.mCustomScrollbar.concat.min.js"></script>
<script>
	(function($){
		$(window).load(function(){
			$("#content_1").mCustomScrollbar({
				horizontalScroll:true, /*scroll horizontally: boolean*/
			});
		});
	})(jQuery);
</script>

add some code into CSS files to customize scrollbar
Final CSS

.div{
	position:relative;
	float:left;
	width:600px;
	overflow:scroll;
	overflow-y:hidden;
	overflow-x:hidden;
}
.inner-div{
	position:relative;
	float:left;
	width:1000px;
}
.mCustomScrollBox{
	height: 192px !important;
}
.mCSB_scrollTools .mCSB_dragger .mCSB_dragger_bar {
	background:red !important;
}
.mCSB_dragger{
	width: 52px !important;
}