How to disable scrolling temporarily?

Question

I\'m using the scrollTo jQuery plugin and would like to know if it is somehow possible to temporarily disable scrolling on the window element through Javascript? The reason

Answer 1

Here is my solution to stop the scroll (no jQuery). I use it to disable the scroll when the side menu appears.

Disable/Enable scroll

I put 17px of padding-right to compensate for the disappearance of the scroll bar. But this is also problematic, mostly for mobile browsers. Solved by getting the bar width according to this.

All together in this Pen.