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

Building on Cheyenne Forbes' answer, and one I found here via fcalderan: Just disable scroll not hide it? and to fix Hallodom's issue of the scrollbar disappearing

CSS:

.preventscroll{
    position: fixed;
    overflow-y:scroll;
}

JS:

whatever.onclick = function(){
    $('body').addClass('preventscroll');
}
whatevertoclose.onclick = function(){
    $('body').removeClass('preventscroll');
}

This code does jump you to the top of the page, but I think that fcalderan's code has a workaround.