[css-scrollbars][css-scrollbars-1] What about a pseudo-element?

[Cadienvan]

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-scrollbars-1/

It's my first time posting an issue here so sorry if I'm doing something wrong.

In my opinion, scrollbars are pretty important and have been a really big issue for us developers for a long time. I just saw this spec for the 1st time and wondered: "Why is this spec related to container element properties? Isn't it better to push it as a new pseudo-element, following the ::-webkit-scrollbar non-standard spec?"
In that way, we could achieve cleaner code such as:

::scroll-bar{
  ...my style
}

instead of styling our scrollbars in every single element with the universal selector *.

As I see this spec is already in stage 1, I wonder if such a discussion has already taken place and, if it did, why did the csswg go in the properties direction.

[jonjohnjohnson]

@Cadienvan After checking out these other threads, I think you might be able to close this and add any outstanding thoughts to them.

• [css-scrollbars] Suggestion: "Overflow styling" / Scrollbar styling #107
• [css-scrollbars][css-scrollbars-1] Use or accept IE initial values for scrollbar-*-color properties #1956
• [css-scrollbars][css-scrollbars-1] Should we also add scrollbar width control? #1958
• [css-scrollbars][css-scrollbars-1] Can we simplify to two scroll-*-color properties? #1960
• [css-scrollbars-1] Rename scrollbar-width to scrollbar-thickness #2966

[Cadienvan]

Thank you. I'll start by closing this one and think about how to properly write my thoughts in a clear comment.