Disable wheel on mouse

[freakystreak]

Does anyone know how to disable the user's scroll wheel on their mouse when using an OSC site? having users using scroll wheels to enter details then using it to scroll down the page causes the information to change.

 

Any ideas?

[Dutch317]

As far as i know you can add onmousewheel="return false;" to the select tag for that box or using java I think you could use something like:

 

if (window.attachEvent && document.getElementsByTagName) {
var  sel = document.getElementsByTagName("select");
for (var i = 0; i; sel.length; ++i) {
	if (sel[i].size == 1) {
		sel[i].attachEvent('onmousewheel', function() {return false;});
	}
}
}

 

I think this will only work on IE6, IE5 doesnt support the event onmousewheel.

Hope that helps get ya started.

[freakystreak]

As far as i know you can add onmousewheel="return false;" to the select tag for that box or using java I think you could use something like:

 

if (window.attachEvent && document.getElementsByTagName) {
var  sel = document.getElementsByTagName("select");
for (var i = 0; i; sel.length; ++i) {
	if (sel[i].size == 1) {
		sel[i].attachEvent('onmousewheel', function() {return false;});
	}
}
}

 

I think this will only work on IE6, IE5 doesnt support the event onmousewheel.

Hope that helps get ya started.

 

 

Many Thanks

[jhande]

Does anyone know how to disable the user's scroll wheel on their mouse when using an OSC site?

 

WOW, you should really consider that before implementing such a feature on your site. Taking control of or altering a visitors system is considered bad practice as it usually makes the person nervous. People tend to think if something is going screwy, what else is going on? And they tend not to return. Best to leave it up to the people with the scroll wheels to click outside the selection boxes before they scroll, most know they have too anyway.

 

Just passing on a tid bit that was told to me at college.

 

;)

[abra123cadabra]

I totally agree. First of all I'm used to the fact that scrolling without clicking outside the box changes the data and secondly I absolutely hate it when a website disables the right mouse button or the wheel (why do you think I have a wheel mouse?) or worst of all resizes my window.

 

abra

[madcrazygirl]

My am I glad you guys replied with what I was thinking! I was trying to work out why you would want to anyway? I also get really cross when things don't work as I want them too :D

 

My biggest hate is sites that disable the back button grrrrrr. It does not make their sites sticky just makes me never want to visit them again for interfering with my browsing habits.

[Dutch317]

You could also try to move the focus to another field with the handler onmouseout or onchange so once its selected the focus moves to another field that doesnt have that problem. Just a thought.

I to hate it when things are disabled.