Option to render proper scrollbar

[jez9999]

The current VS Code scrollbars (both vertical and horizontal) are OK, but I would prefer:

• The scrollbars not to disappear when the mouse stops moving
• The scrollbars to be a bit thicker, thus easier to click
• An up and a down arrow at the top and bottom (or left and right of the horizontal one) to scroll one line per click
• The scrollbar to jump "towards" where you click on empty space either side of the scroll handle, instead of the handle immediately jumping to where the mouse cursor is

In short, they should be like the Visual Studio 2015 scrollbars. Maybe a setting could be introduced to render this more "traditional" type of scrollbar.

[astromediaonly]

Yeah, this is realy needed. There seems to be options to render arrows atleast but they dont seems to work now (arrows are rendered but clicking does nothing). Im using notebook with touchpad for programming half of the time and without arrow buttons its realy hard to use it - not everybody has scroll wheel.

[shiol]

I really need larger scrollbars and arrow buttons, Is there any alternative?

[wysisoft]

I would really like scrollbar up and down buttons too

[ghost]

Having a transparent scrollbar is nuts. Who thinks editor text that is visible in the scrollbar is a good thing?

There is no option that I can find to get the editor to work like, well, ALL other editors...

[RedDragonWebDesign]

I am also interested in this feature, particularly being able to click above/below the scroll box location and having it do page up/page down instead of jump. It is bugging me enough that I googled how to change it, and found this feature request. +1, fully support. Please add!

[SoundOfMind]

Another vote. Please add!

The only way to navigate through some massively long lists is by click and drag with the mouse. Many times using arrow keys or PgUp/PgDn doesn't work as expected.

[my-name-is]

I want the scrollbar & slider to be permanently visible. It gives an indication of where in the document the viewport is. To me that's useful all the time, not just when I move the mouse or scrollwheels.

In Windows 10 there's a setting "Automatically hide scrollbars in Windows", which I have switched off. I'd like it if more apps respected that setting. (Of course, the setting says "Windows" with a capital W, so might just mean for Windows 10's own apps, rather than all windows. Still, consistency across all apps would be nice.)

[LinuxLikeUnix]

I'd love to be able to move the position of the scrollbar as well.

I have a preview open, and the scroll bar is in-between the code and the preview.

Very akward imho.

[starball5]

Related to the buttons, see also #22636. Also this comment there which mentions some undocumented setting for enabling them. But I'm confused about what's going on with the button support. The code seems to still be there for those settings: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/release/1.84/src/vs/editor/common/config/editorOptions.ts#L2563 but it doesn't seem to take effect. Related on Stack Overflow: How can I enable arrow buttons in VS Code's scrollbars?

[CoolJavelin]

There are a lot of people asking for this feature (Really, arrows on top and bottom of scrollbars is a feature these days? isn't it a standard library somewhere?)

Anyway, I haven't seen anyone in charge respond here, is this a dead topic?

Mark.

[Techniktypi]

The arrows would be especially helpful on small displays to scroll in single line steps with the mouse, so please (re-?)add this!

Decades ago this was standard in OS GUIs but went away for stylistic reasons.
I have to admit that I just started missing the buttons using VS code on a relatively small notebook screen, but still...

I even found a post that suggests that this omission produces accessibility issues for people with certain disabilities.

But I understand that the VS code is not too happy about fixing issues in their software that actually have their root cause in questionable decisions of certain OS suppliers.