diff --git a/src/styles.css b/src/styles.css
index 1582dcec..b4e821da 100644
--- a/src/styles.css
+++ b/src/styles.css
@@ -1166,12 +1166,23 @@ textarea::placeholder {
   overflow-x: auto;
   overflow-y: hidden;
   padding: 2px 6px 2px 4px;
+  scrollbar-width: auto;
+  scrollbar-color: auto;
   /* Native clickable-preview margins: scrollIntoView keeps 64px of each
      neighbor visible, and edge clamping snaps the first/last task flush.
      Keep in sync with TASK_CLICKABLE_PREVIEW_PX in src/store/focused-panel.ts. */
   scroll-padding-inline: 64px;
 }
 
+.tiling-layout-strip::-webkit-scrollbar {
+  height: 10px;
+}
+
+.tiling-layout-strip::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
+  border-block: 2px solid transparent;
+  background-clip: padding-box;
+}
+
 .tiling-layout-scroll-affordance {
   position: absolute;
   top: 2px;
diff --git a/src/tiling-layout-scrollbar-styles.test.ts b/src/tiling-layout-scrollbar-styles.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cf89866e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tiling-layout-scrollbar-styles.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { resolve } from 'node:path';
+import { Window } from 'happy-dom';
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+
+const window = new Window();
+const style = window.document.createElement('style');
+style.textContent = readFileSync(resolve(__dirname, 'styles.css'), 'utf8');
+window.document.head.append(style);
+
+function declarationsFor(selector: string): CSSStyleDeclaration {
+  const rule = Array.from(style.sheet?.cssRules ?? []).find(
+    (candidate) => 'selectorText' in candidate && candidate.selectorText === selector,
+  ) as CSSStyleRule | undefined;
+
+  if (!rule) throw new Error(`Missing CSS rule for ${selector}`);
+  return rule.style;
+}
+
+describe('tiling layout horizontal scrollbar', () => {
+  it('scopes a 10px hit target and 6px painted thumb to the tiling strip', () => {
+    const strip = declarationsFor('.tiling-layout-strip');
+    expect(strip.getPropertyValue('scrollbar-width')).toBe('auto');
+    expect(strip.getPropertyValue('scrollbar-color')).toBe('auto');
+
+    const scrollbar = declarationsFor('.tiling-layout-strip::-webkit-scrollbar');
+    expect(scrollbar.getPropertyValue('height')).toBe('10px');
+
+    const thumb = declarationsFor('.tiling-layout-strip::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb');
+    expect(thumb.getPropertyValue('border-block')).toBe('2px solid transparent');
+    expect(thumb.getPropertyValue('background-clip')).toBe('padding-box');
+
+    const globalScrollbar = declarationsFor('::-webkit-scrollbar');
+    expect(globalScrollbar.getPropertyValue('width')).toBe('5px');
+    expect(globalScrollbar.getPropertyValue('height')).toBe('5px');
+  });
+});