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Are you talking about customizing scroll bars by changing their colour?
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#### Yes.
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And when you validated, was it with an external css file? And if so, did you validate the css?
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#### Yes, external css; and No, I didn't validate it.
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To my knowledge, customized scroll bars arent supported by xhtml, but are also only supported by IE & not other browsers.
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#### Yes, I discovered that custom scrollbars are "illegal" (as one author put it) in xhtml. According to that article, they are supported by at least one other browser (I think it was Opera) as well as IE.
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My reckoning would be that the XHTML doctype didnt display the customization, whereas the HTML would. But if you had the formatting in a separate css file, then the XHTML page would still validate, even though it wouldnt show the scroll bar.
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#### Right, that was exactly my experience. And obviously my remote css file would not validate....
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Have you checked it in other browsers apart from IE?
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#### Only Netscape 4 - which will not show a custom scrollbar even if you stand on your head! : ^ )
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There are many customisations that arent supported from browser to browser,or from HTML to XHTML, hence why there are so many hacks in place to deal with them. The reasoning behind XHTML was to try & make code compatable with all current & future technologies.
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#### Yes....and I really appreciate that....but I also like the custom scrollbars - they make the page look so much better!!
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