put Iframe scroll cntrls far away

[castlewalls]

I'm a newbie, please be patient! Is it possible to have a scrollable inline frame that has no scroll bars on it, but the scrolling controls are elsewhere as up/down buttons on the page?

I also need to figure out how to put a stationary background in the iframe so it melds seamlessly with the rest of the WP design & have the iframes content (text & graphics & links that will change the content of the iframe) just scroll up & down.

I have the WP graphic design done & finally figured out it was an iframe I needed for the "scrollable" area. I've got the buttons clickable & the whole thing (one big graphic to fill the screen) is sliced.

I've tried Cookwoods HTML 4 book to help me finish this thing off (really an excersize in design on my part as I don't really want to learn html) & all the other free & demo'd WP making software but 1P2k was the only one that made any sense to me.

TIA- jim

[DCElliott]

To my knowledge, you can only do what you want (remote scrolling) with javascript, and I don't know if you can do it to an iframe. You can, however, make Iframes without scrollbars. The best way to handle them is with CSS and use CSS to handle height and width in a <DIV>. CSS allows flexible height and width, you can color the scrollbars or set the height to be >100% which gets rid of the scrollbars. There are various other tricks you can do. I don't know how conversant you are with Iframes or CSS so if you want to discuss things some more . . .

DE

[castlewalls]

Unfortunately, I know nothing about webpages other than what I've done in Coreldraw. Basically created a "page" size of 800x600 pixels & created a graphic which I assigned hotspots to in draw. I then imported the thing into Corel photopaint & using guidelines, sliced the graphic into appropriate sections for the buttons & iframe area.

That & fudging around with the code corel made in 1P2k to get the basic WP to look proper & the buttons to be clickable. I don't spend enough time & effort with it to get anywhere.

I just checked an address that someone else tried to help me with, it still (I'm surprised!) has my WP graphic on it. She put it there to show me how the iframe would basically work (the text is not mine...). I'll have to get back in touch & let her know she's wasting her bandwidth. That was a while ago & I forgot all about it.
It's at: http://nonsymptomatic.net/help/jim.html
Basically, that's the design... -Jim