This is the coolest thing in the world

[someonewhois]

Was just reading Sitepoint.com, middle clicked to scroll (do that most of the time). That's SO cool. Really sharp looking. Of course, I launch IE to see if it works in that too, and middle click scrolling doesn't even work. So it's not perfect, but still, that's awesome.

Mods: Put this in CSS if you want, or in Sitepoint support... I thought it was pretty off topic.

[The New Guy]

Thats neat. Little buggy though.

[biggazillakilla]

Never seen that trick before. Awesome!

[someonewhois]

Just at quick glance, this is all there is:

 img {
	border: 0px none #fff;
}
html>img
{
	width: 0!important;
	height: 28px!important;
	padding-left: 28px!important;
	background: url(/images/icons/autoscroll2.png);
}

That's interesting. Just need a way to block that from IE...

[petesmc]

The html>img does block it from IE. The IE scroll hasn't worked for about 6 months. I've raised the issue many times but have had no response about it. I find it very very annoying. Just a hint though, if you want to middle scroll, do it on the side bar. It works there.

[someonewhois]

The html>img does block it from IE. The IE scroll hasn't worked for about 6 months. I've raised the issue many times but have had no response about it. I find it very very annoying. Just a hint though, if you want to middle scroll, do it on the side bar. It works there.

Oh. Do you know what messes up the scroll?

[cloak]

Was just about to post about this! I noticed it too, and wrote about it on my site, its dead easy to do. Ive just added it to a project im working on. Tres cool

http://36-degrees.co.uk/test.php?sub...from=&ucat=17&

[petesmc]

I'm not sure, but i've seen it on many sites. It's definately due to the use of CSS as the problem has only cropped up in the last year or so, when annoying 'Pure CSS' sites started popping up.

[Young Twig]

Yeah, it's been up for a couple weeks. I was going to post on it, but I figured it was already done.

Anyone care to explain why html>img changes the scroll icon?

[someonewhois]

Yeah, it's been up for a couple weeks. I was going to post on it, but I figured it was already done.

Anyone care to explain why html>img changes the scroll icon?

As far as I know, it's becuase the scrolling thing is an image (in XUL that is), and so basically changing the images to that gets the job done. It probably changes other images too, but as long as that's at the top, and all images under it are overwritten to be normal, you're good to go. This is just a guess of course...

[Young Twig]

Oh I get it. Nevermind. I was thinking it would change all images to be the scroll image. But unless your images are completely, transparent... That shouldn't happen.

But wait... Shouldn't it make them all 0px wide and 28px high and crap?

EDIT: Or does the child selector only change the properties of its children... i.e. not grandchildren. So it wouldn't affect anything in the body?

[someonewhois]

Either it doesn't do grandchildren, or they've got another override on each image to counter it...

[Indian]

http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=225620

In reality this is a known bug

[mmj]

[cloak]

Take it your proud of that one then Thomas? Its very neat indeed, although as i said on my blog, Its open to all sorts of abuse, the sorts of things we used to see with custom mousetrails! i can forsee 300pixel wide autoscrollers of pictures of peoples cats and other travesties!

[mmj]

Its open to all sorts of abuse, the sorts of things we used to see with custom mousetrails! i can forsee 300pixel wide autoscrollers of pictures of peoples cats and other travesties!

You mean like this?

http://ln.hixie.ch/

/* Joke on the Firefox users */
html > img { width: 400px ! important; height: 400px ! important; background:
url(/resources/images/astrophy/48) no-repeat ! important; cursor: pointer !
important; }

[Consider-This]

Oh wow,
I never knew what that button was for.
Thank you!!!!
It works in IE for me....