Question

I have a problem with my webkit scrollbar on the iPod/iPhone/iPad – the user can’t scroll down. The scrollbar just looks like a floating line, and the page breaks halfway through. (It works fine in Chrome & Safari.)

Is there any way I can keep the scrollbar, but have it not be custom on apple products?

Here’s my site, and here’s my scrollbar code:

::-webkit-scrollbar {
    width: 6px;
    height: 6px;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-button:start:decrement,
::-webkit-scrollbar-button:end:increment {
    display: block;
    height: 10px;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-button:vertical:increment {
    background-color: #fff;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-track-piece {
    background-color: #eee;
    -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:vertical {
    height: 50px;
    background-color: #ccc;
    -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:horizontal {
    width: 50px;
    background-color: #ccc;
    -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
}


html {
    overflow: auto;
    background-color: #FAFAFA;
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}


body {
    background: #FAFAFA;
    font-family: arial, serif;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    right: 10px;
    overflow-y: scroll;
    overflow-x: hidden;
        color: #999;
}

Answer 1

You might have to load that scrollbar styling code from a separate stylesheet. Move it over to a new file, lets say scrollbars.css, and attach this code to your JavaScript:

var userAgent = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();

if (userAgent.search('iphone') == -1 && userAgent.search('ipod') == -1)
{
  $('head').append('<link rel="stylesheet" href="scrollbars.css" type="text/css" />');
}

---

In your site, you have these styles in the main page:

::-webkit-scrollbar {
    width: 6px;
    height: 6px;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-button:start:decrement,
::-webkit-scrollbar-button:end:increment {
    display: block;
    height: 10px;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-button:vertical:increment {
    background-color: #fff;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-track-piece {
    background-color: #eee;
    -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:vertical {
    height: 50px;
    background-color: #ccc;
    -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:horizontal {
    width: 50px;
    background-color: #ccc;
    -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
}

...

Take them and copy them over to a new file called scrollbars.css. Now, delete those old ones from your site completely. The JavaScript loads the scrollbar CSS file automagically.