joshkrz
1/11/2019 - 11:17 AM

Scroll Lock

Lock scrolling in a webpage via mouse wheel, keyboard buttons or touch. However it still allows the user to scroll with the scroll bar. Does not have any dependancies.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4770025/how-to-disable-scrolling-temporarily

function preventDefault(e) {
    e = e || window.event;
    if (e.preventDefault)
        e.preventDefault();
    e.returnValue = false;
}

function preventDefaultForScrollKeys(e) {
  // left: 37, up: 38, right: 39, down: 40,
  // spacebar: 32, pageup: 33, pagedown: 34, end: 35, home: 36
  var keys = {37: 1, 38: 1, 39: 1, 40: 1, 32:1, 33:1, 34:1, 35:1, 36:1};
  
    if (keys[e.keyCode]) {
        preventDefault(e);
        return false;
    }
}

function disableScroll() {
    if (window.addEventListener) // older FF
        window.addEventListener('DOMMouseScroll', preventDefault, false);
    window.onwheel = preventDefault; // modern standard
    window.onmousewheel = document.onmousewheel = preventDefault; // older browsers, IE
    window.ontouchmove  = preventDefault; // mobile
    document.onkeydown  = preventDefaultForScrollKeys;
}

function enableScroll() {
    if (window.removeEventListener)
        window.removeEventListener('DOMMouseScroll', preventDefault, false);
    window.onmousewheel = document.onmousewheel = null;
    window.onwheel = null;
    window.ontouchmove = null;
    document.onkeydown = null;
}