I have a little "floating tool box" - a div with position:fixed; overflow:auto
.
Works just fine.
But when scrolling inside that box (with the mouse wheel) and reaching the bottom OR top, the parent element "takes over" the "scroll request" : The document behind the tool box scrolls.
- Which is annoying and not what the user "asked for".
I'm using jQuery and thought I could stop this behaviour with event.stoppropagation():
$("#toolBox").scroll( function(event){ event.stoppropagation() });
It does enter the function, but still, propagation happens anyway (the document scrolls)
- It's surprisingly hard to search for this topic on SO (and Google), so I have to ask:
How to prevent propagation / bubbling of the scroll-event ?
Edit:
Working solution thanks to amustill (and Brandon Aaron for the mousewheel-plugin here:
https://github.com/brandonaaron/jquery-mousewheel/raw/master/jquery.mousewheel.js
$(".ToolPage").bind('mousewheel', function(e, d)
var t = $(this);
if (d > 0 && t.scrollTop() === 0) {
e.preventDefault();
}
else {
if (d < 0 && (t.scrollTop() == t.get(0).scrollHeight - t.innerHeight())) {
e.preventDefault();
}
}
});
It's possible with the use of Brandon Aaron's Mousewheel plugin.
Here's a demo: http://jsbin.com/jivutakama/edit?html,js,output
$(function() {
var toolbox = $('#toolbox'),
height = toolbox.height(),
scrollHeight = toolbox.get(0).scrollHeight;
toolbox.bind('mousewheel', function(e, d) {
if((this.scrollTop === (scrollHeight - height) && d < 0) || (this.scrollTop === 0 && d > 0)) {
e.preventDefault();
}
});
});