There has been a good deal of talk over the years of making form controls stylable[1]; a few, like buttons, already are, and WebKit has some vendor-specific ext

There has been a good deal of talk over the years of making form controls stylable[1]; a few, like buttons, already are, and WebKit has some vendor-specific extensions for things like scrollbars[2]. But it will take quite a bit of work to hash out standards, and a lot of implementation work in all of the major browsers to get it there. The WebKit scrollbars use a whole bunch of pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes, but there's also a possibility that the functionality for reaching inside controls and interacting with their individual parts may be exposed through a shadow DOM[3]. As mentioned in the shadow DOM post, there's a lot of work needed to be done discussing, standardizing, and implementing these features. I'd encourage people interested to get involved on www-style and public-webapps at the W3C, and the WHATWG mailing list (avoid public-html at the W3C, it appears to be purely political at this point), or get involved in one of the open-source browser engines implementing experimental versions of this stuff to give a starting point for discussion. [1]: http://goo.gl/i1eL9 http://goo.gl/i1eL9 [2]: http://www.webkit.org/blog/363/styling-scrollbars/ http://www.webkit.org/blog/363/styling-scrollbars/ [3]: http://glazkov.com/2011/01/14/what-the-heck-is-shadow-dom/ http://glazkov.com/2011/01/14/what-the-heck-is-shadow-dom/