$('#bottom').on('scroll', function () {
$('#top').scrollTop($(this).scrollTop());
});
Here we are using .scrollTop() for all it’s worth, getting the scrollTop value from the element with scroll-bars, and setting the scrollTop for the other element to sync their scroll positions: http://api.jquery.com/scrollTop
This assumes that your bottom element has an ID of bottom and your top element has an ID of top.
You can hide the scroll-bars for the top element using CSS:
#top {
overflow : hidden;
}
Here is a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/sgcer/1884/
I suppose I’ve never really had a reason to do this, but it looks pretty cool in action.