How to programmatically disable page scrolling with jQuery

Question

Using jQuery, I would like to disable scrolling of the body:

My idea is to:

1. Set body{ overflow: hidden;}
2. Capture the current

Answer 1

You can attach a function to scroll events and prevent its default behaviour.

var $window = $(window);

$window.on("mousewheel DOMMouseScroll", onMouseWheel);

function onMouseWheel(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
}

https://jsfiddle.net/22cLw9em/