scrollbar on the left?

is it possible

[httpwebwitch]

Here's a wacky question.

I have a <div> with overflow:scroll

Is there a way to force the scrollbar to the left of the rectangle, insted of on the right?
Though unorthodox, in my layout it would look WAY better

[Receptional Andy]

You could do this using a custom scrollbar created by javascript, although I don't think it's possible in CSS.

Would be a fair bit of work to get it to be cross-browser, although hopefully someone may have already done some of the work for you if that's the route you wanted to take. High potential for usability problems though, I imagine.

[penders]

Is there a way to force the scrollbar to the left of the rectangle, insted of on the right?

You can try changing the

direction

property of the <div>. Although this is strictly for the direction of text (left to right / right to left), it also sensibly flips over the vertical scrollbar. Worked OK for me as a 'nice to have' on what was essentially a list of items. Worked in FF2 and IE6 (I can't be sure about Opera9 though).

direction:rtl;  /* Right To Left */ 
text-align:left; /* Override direction */

This should perhaps come with some accessibility warning about not messing with users intuition but I have found this handy in 1 particular case!

[Mander]

I have been looking so long for this answer :) thanks.

[httpwebwitch]

it worked beautifully. thanks!