Title: CSS Scrollbars and setting table widths
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# CSS Scrollbars and setting table widths

 *  [Barbara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barbara/)
 * (@barbara)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-scrollbars-and-setting-table-widths/)
 * Can someone please tell me where I can insert text/css code to my wordpress so
   that I can have coloured scrollbars please?
 * Also, I would like to stretch my wordpress to fit into a table with a width of
   1024 pixels. Does anyone know if there is a line I can edit in one of the wordpress
   php files that will allow me to do this?

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 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-scrollbars-and-setting-table-widths/#post-228969)
 * 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/Using_Themes)
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout](http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout)
 *  Thread Starter [Barbara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barbara/)
 * (@barbara)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-scrollbars-and-setting-table-widths/#post-228980)
 * 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?
 *  [Chadwick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chadwick/)
 * (@chadwick)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-scrollbars-and-setting-table-widths/#post-229117)
 * 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.
 *  [rustindy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rustindy/)
 * (@rustindy)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-scrollbars-and-setting-table-widths/#post-229118)
 * 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.
 *  [Pizdin Dim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pizdin_dim/)
 * (@pizdin_dim)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-scrollbars-and-setting-table-widths/#post-229119)
 * 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.
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-scrollbars-and-setting-table-widths/#post-229120)
 * 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.
 *  [Pizdin Dim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pizdin_dim/)
 * (@pizdin_dim)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-scrollbars-and-setting-table-widths/#post-229121)
 * From [HTML Source](http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/stylesheets/scrollbars.html):
 * “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 wonâ€™t mess
   them up either. Gooood. The properties are non-standard CSS, and will stop your
   siteâ€™s stylesheet from validating. Itâ€™s not that big a deal, but purists 
   beware.”
 * Lovely!

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