Problems with mousewheel in jQuery

Question

I have the following code in the head-section:

jQuery(function($         


        

Answer 1

Here is a cross-browser solution:

var onMouseWheel = function(e) {
    e = e.originalEvent;
    var delta = e.wheelDelta>0||e.detail<0?1:-1;
    alert(delta);
}
$("body").bind("mousewheel DOMMouseScroll", onMouseWheel);