Loveen Dyall
Loveen Dyall

Reputation: 834

How do I hide the cursor on hover of a scrollbar?

If I use

* {
    cursor: none!important;
}

on my webpage, the cursor still appears whenever hovering over a scroll bar. I can hide the scrollbar to prevent this but how do I hide only the cursor and not the scroll bar?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 278

Answers (2)

Liam
Liam

Reputation: 6743

You can do that using jQuery "jscrollpane"

You have to add at the first jscrollpane.css

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jScrollPane/2.1.0/style/jquery.jscrollpane.css" />

Then called jQuery file and the other files

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-mousewheel/3.1.13/jquery.mousewheel.min.js"></script>

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jScrollPane/2.1.0/script/jquery.jscrollpane.js"></script>

As well as you can change the cursor, you only have to change this code in css cursor: zoom-in !important; to cursor: none !important; if you want to hide the cursor.

In:

.jspDrag {
    background: #FF5722;
    position: relative;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    cursor: zoom-in !important;
}

Here you go

$(function()
{
    $('.scroll-pane')
        .jScrollPane()
        .bind(
            'mousewheel',
            function(e)
            {
                e.preventDefault();
            }
        );
});
.scroll-pane
{
    width: 100%;
    height: 200px;
    overflow: auto;
}
.scroll-pane p
{
    margin: 5px 0;
}
.jspTrack {
    background: #0f7;
    position: relative;
}
.jspDrag {
    background: #FF5722;
    position: relative;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    cursor: zoom-in !important;
}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jScrollPane/2.1.0/style/jquery.jscrollpane.css" />

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jScrollPane/2.1.0/script/jquery.jscrollpane.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-mousewheel/3.1.13/jquery.mousewheel.min.js"></script>

 <div class="scroll-pane">
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        </div>

Upvotes: 2

Liam
Liam

Reputation: 6743

it is not possible to change the cursor for the 'browser scrollbar' by using CSS alone

because CSS is only supposed to effect the contents of the browser window and not the browser interface itself.

Upvotes: 0

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