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Don’t use custom CSS scrollbars

Link: Don’t use custom CSS scrollbars by Eric W Bailey. Published Wed 03 May 2023.

On… lots of things. The need to respect unpredictable user settings, how accessibility is popular with everyone to a point – and why styling your scrollbar is a bad idea.

This is really good, as it develops from a seemingly minor point to a broad explanation of how messing with these type of OS settings – as opposed to browser styles – causes all sorts of unintended problems.