hi all,
can someone suggest the best way to have text scroll overtop of a stationery background image without a present scroll bar?
thanks in advance.
john

Hi John,

The simplest way I can think of for this effect would be to do it with a HTML marquee tag and a fixed background-image.

<marquee behavior = alternate direction = up style = "background-image:url(myImg.jpg); background-attachment:fixed; background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position: top left" bgcolor = "yellow">Your text here</marquee>

You can set the marquee direction to 'up', 'down', 'left' or 'right', while you can also specify how many times the text should scroll using the 'loop = n' parameter. There are a few new events with marquee that are scriptable too. Have a look at this link for info:

http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/marquee3.shtml

Hope that helps

Joe

p.s. Remember to specify width for horizontal scrolling, or width and height for vertical scrolling, in px or %.

joe, thanks much for the response, however it's not exactly what I'm looking for. now that I see your answer, I see my question was unclear. check here for reference anyone. http://www.webmakersinc.com/aboutus.html. I'm looking to scroll the text only while everything else remains stationery. I could go <iframe>, but I would rather not make a new scroll bar, and use the browser window scroll instead. possible? thanks again.
john

Hi John,

Not sure what you mean. If you have text that goes out of the bounds of the text area, then surely a scrollbar will have to be generated? (Unless you turn this off in CSS). But then you wouldn't be able to scroll it. What about a div with overflow:auto? This will generate the scrollbar, but you will then be able to style the div's scrollbar with whatever you want in CSS (although this is obviously possible with textareas and the like). I don't think theres a way of using the main document scrollbar to scroll content in a layer or Iframe, sorry.

thanks again joe, I wasn't sure if it was possible, what I was trying to do. I went with the css scrollbar, even though it only works in IE and not Netscape or Firefox.
john