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Build a beautiful custom scrollbar

Build a beautiful custom scrollbar

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Build a beautiful custom scrollbar

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In this session, we'll enhance the user experience of our Story Collection React app by styling the scrollbar. We'll move beyond the default browser scrollbar and create a visually appealing, modern scrollbar using custom CSS. Our design will integrate seamlessly with our app's color theme, utilizing Tailwind's purple shades. Now, I'm adding the first part of our custom scrollbar CSS. I'm targeting the scrollbar using this pseudo-element. This selector works across WebKit-based browsers like Chrome and Safari. I'm setting the width and height to 9 pixels, giving our scrollbar a slim, modern look. This ensures a consistent appearance on both the vertical and horizontal scroll bars. To style the scroll bar track, the area behind the thumb, I am using the WebKit scroll bar track pseudo element. I'm setting the background to transparent. This allows the underlying content to show through, creating a clean, unobtrusive effect. I am now styling the scroll bar thumb, the draggable part of…

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