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

Do it simply by adding a class to the body:

.stop-scrolling {
  height: 100%;
  overflow: hidden;
}

Add the class then remove when you want to re-enable scrolling, tested in IE, FF, Safari and Chrome.

$('body').addClass('stop-scrolling')

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For mobile devices, you'll need to handle the touchmove event:

$('body').bind('touchmove', function(e){e.preventDefault()})

And unbind to re-enable scrolling. Tested in iOS6 and Android 2.3.3

$('body').unbind('touchmove')

Answer 2

According to the galambalazs post I would add support for touch devices, allowing us to touch but no scroll up or down:

function disable_scroll() {
   ...
   document.ontouchmove = function(e){ 
        e.preventDefault(); 
   }
}

function enable_scroll() {
   ...
   document.ontouchmove = function(e){ 
     return true; 
   }
}

Answer 3

I was looking out for a solution to this problem but was not satisfied with the any of the above solutions (as of writing this answer), so I came up with this solution..

CSS

.scrollDisabled {   
    position: fixed;
    margin-top: 0;// override by JS to use acc to curr $(window).scrollTop()
    width: 100%;
}

JS

var y_offsetWhenScrollDisabled=0;

function disableScrollOnBody(){
    y_offsetWhenScrollDisabled= $(window).scrollTop();
    $('body').addClass('scrollDisabled').css('margin-top', -y_offsetWhenScrollDisabled);
}
function enableScrollOnBody(){
    $('body').removeClass('scrollDisabled').css('margin-top', 0);
    $(window).scrollTop(y_offsetWhenScrollDisabled);
}

Answer 4

I'm using showModalDialog, for showing secondary page as modal dialog.

to hide main window scrollbars:

document.body.style.overflow = "hidden";

and when closing modal dialog, showing main window scrollbars:

document.body.style.overflow = "scroll";

to access elements in main window from dialog:

parent.document.getElementById('dialog-close').click();

just for anybody searching about showModalDialog:(after line 29 of original code)

document.getElementById('dialog-body').contentWindow.dialogArguments = arg;
document.body.style.overflow = "hidden";//****
document.getElementById('dialog-close').addEventListener('click', function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    document.body.style.overflow = "scroll";//****
    dialog.close();
});

Answer 5

How about this? (If you're using jQuery)

var $window = $(window);
var $body = $(window.document.body);

window.onscroll = function() {
    var overlay = $body.children(".ui-widget-overlay").first();

    // Check if the overlay is visible and restore the previous scroll state
    if (overlay.is(":visible")) {
        var scrollPos = $body.data("scroll-pos") || { x: 0, y: 0 };
        window.scrollTo(scrollPos.x, scrollPos.y);
    }
    else {
        // Just store the scroll state
        $body.data("scroll-pos", { x: $window.scrollLeft(), y: $window.scrollTop() });
    }
};

Answer 6

A simple solution that worked for me (disabling window scrolling temporarily).

Based on this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/dh834zgw/1/

the following snippet (using jquery) will disable the window scroll:

 var curScrollTop = $(window).scrollTop();
 $('html').toggleClass('noscroll').css('top', '-' + curScrollTop + 'px');

And in your css:

html.noscroll{
    position: fixed;
    width: 100%;
    top:0;
    left: 0;
    height: 100%;
    overflow-y: scroll !important;
    z-index: 10;
 }

Now when you remove the modal, don't forget to remove the noscroll class on the html tag:

$('html').toggleClass('noscroll');