# malihu/malihu-custom-scrollbar-plugin

Highly customizable custom scrollbar jQuery plugin, featuring vertical/horizontal scrollbars, scrolling momentum, mouse-wheel, keyboard and touch support etc.

Repository: https://github.com/malihu/malihu-custom-scrollbar-plugin
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/malihu-custom-scrollbar-plugin
Homepage: http://manos.malihu.gr/jquery-custom-content-scroller
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2021-09-30T09:10:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5161, "days_push": 1798, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4074, forks 1442 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:34.289217+00:00)

## What it is
A highly customizable jQuery plugin that replaces native browser scrollbars with styled custom scrollbars. It supports vertical and horizontal scrolling, momentum, mouse-wheel, keyboard, and touch input, plus themes and callbacks.

## Use cases
- style custom scrollbars on a website
- replace default browser scrollbar with themed one
- add touch and mouse-wheel scrolling to overflow content
- create horizontal scrolling sections with custom scrollbar
- support RTL layouts with custom scrollbars

## When to choose
- your project already uses jQuery
- you need pixel-level control over scrollbar appearance and behavior
- you must support legacy browsers like IE8+

## When to avoid
- building a modern framework app (React/Vue) without jQuery
- you only need simple CSS scrollbar styling (scrollbar-width/::-webkit-scrollbar)
- you need an actively developed dependency

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, animation
- domain: frontend, web-development
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: jquery-plugin, custom-scrollbar, scrolling, touch-support, css-theming

## Member repositories
- malihu/malihu-custom-scrollbar-plugin (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.289217+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:23:29.317420+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/malihu/malihu-custom-scrollbar-plugin (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.289217+00:00, sha 42b02eaefd6f)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/malihu-custom-scrollbar-plugin (fetched 2026-08-29T09:15:48.399609+00:00, sha b2afd553aff6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.