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Apply custom scrollbar styles using a utility class

Apply custom scrollbar styles using a utility class

In this session, we'll enhance our Kanban board's user experience by implementing custom scrollbars. We'll achieve this using a utility class, which will provide a consistent and visually appealing scrollbar design across different browsers and especially improve the experience in dark mode. Let's add the Thin Scrollbar utility class to our horizontal scrolling container. This will apply our custom scrollbar styles, which we'll define in the next step. Moving to index.css I'm starting to create the CSS for the Thin Scrollbar utility class. This class will house all the styles for our custom scrollbar. Now I am setting the width of the vertical scrollbar to 4 pixels. This creates a thinner vertical scroll bar than the default, providing a sleeker look. In order to ensure horizontal scrolling looks good as well, let's make the horizontal scroll bar slightly thicker than the vertical one, making it easier to grab and use, especially on touch devices. Let's style the scroll bar thumb by…

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