How do we make a styled scroll bar for a with mouse wheel sensitive

Question

I need to create an area of the page that has it\'s own scroll bar, just like the Facebook messenger in the image below.

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Answer 1

I imagine that custom scrollbar is implemented in javascript, it looks very slick and you can't make a browsers scrollbar look that good!

Find an example I just put together for you at: http://jsfiddle.net/9LHPW/2/ - note check the resources tab as this includes four external files (3x Js and 1x CSS)

Have a look at this website for a further example (looks like exactly what you want) with Javascript and jQuery: http://manos.malihu.gr/tuts/jquery_custom_scrollbar.html

You can find the plugin's home at http://manos.malihu.gr/jquery-custom-content-scroller

Along with a how to use it section!