10 Best Custom Scroll Bar Plugins In jQuery And Vanilla JS (2022 Update)
These 10 Best Custom Scroll Bar plugins enable you to beautify and enhance the native & ugly browser scrollbars.
Some of these plugins also supports scrollable container and horizontal scrollbars. I hope you like it.
YOU MIGHT NOT NEED JavaScript! You can also apply your own CSS styles to the native browser scrollbars the ::-webkit-scrollbar CSS pseudo-element.
/* width */ ::-webkit-scrollbar { width: 10px; } /* button */ ::-webkit-scrollbar-button { background: #222; } /* Handle */ ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { background: #333; } /* Handle on hover */ ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:hover { background: #666; } /* Track */ ::-webkit-scrollbar-track { background: #000; } /* The track NOT covered by the handle. ::-webkit-scrollbar-track-piece { background: #000; } /* Corner */ ::-webkit-scrollbar-corner { background: #999; } /* Resizer */ ::-webkit-resizer { background: #111; }
Originally Published Dec 22 2017, updated Jan 18 2022
Table of contents:
jQuery Custom Scrollbar Plugins:
jQuery Custom Scrollbar Plugin - malihu
malihu is a jQuery plugin that allows you to beautify your content scrollbar with CSS and jQuery UI.
Highly Customizable Custom Overlay Scrollbar Plugin With jQuery
The jQuery OverlayScrollbars plugin provides a simple way to create customizable, themeable overlay scrollbars on any scrollable element while preserving the native scroll functionality.
jQuery Plugin For Custom Scrollbar - scrollbox
A lightweight jQuery plugin that applies a custom Scrollbar to your content, which triggers events when reached the defined point.
Mobile-friendly Custom Scrollbar Plugin With jQuery - NiceScroll
An easy yet robust jQuery plugin that allows to append pretty nice, touch-enabled and highly customizable scrollbar to any scrollable area such as browser window, DIV container, iframe, textarea and much more.
Create Scrollable Container With Custom Scrollbar - scrollPanel
A jQuery plugin (~2kb minified) that transforms a DIV container into a scrollable panel where you can customize the scrollbar using your own CSS rules.
Vanilla Custom Scrollbar Libraries:
Tiny JavaScript Plugin For Beautifying Scrollbar - perfect-scrollbar
A lightweight jQuery JavaScript plugin that allows you to beautify the default scroll bars without changing or adding any style on original elements.
smooth-scrollbar
smooth-scrollbar is a JavaScript library used to create a customizable, performant scrollbar with smooth scrolling effects for scrollable content.
SimpleBar
SimpleBar is a simple, standalone JavaScript library that appends a custom scrollbar to any scrollable container which has overflowing content. Works with CSS overflow: auto property and keeps the native scroll behavior.
slim-scroll
Slim-scroll is a Pure JavaScript plugin to replace the native browser scrollbar with one that can be easily customized via CSS.
OverlayScrollbars
OverlayScrollbars is a JavaScript library used to create elegant, customizable and themeable scrollbars on any scrollable elements.
Conclusion:
Seeking more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create awesome Custom Scroll Bars on the web & mobile? See jQuery Scroll Bar and JavaScript Scrollbar sections for more details.