Re: How to stop scroll wheel from selecting different menu options

Other wrote:
> <amirkarger@gmail.com> wrote
> > However, in IE, after it goes to the new
> > location, if I turn the scroll wheel before clicking on anything, the
> > scroll wheel selects different options from the <select>, which makes
> > the browser jump to a totally different tool (section of the page). In
> > Firefox, it (correctly) scrolls up and down the text at the tool I had
> > originally selected.
> >
> > I tried putting a document.focus() or a selection.blur() into the go
> > function, but they didn't seem to help.
>
> document.focus() is bogus. Try window.focus() instead. Or indeed
> selection.blur(), if "selection" is a variable referencing the <select>
> element. If it is, I 'd give it a less confusing name, as the term selection
> has meaning already in some browsers.
>
> hth

It h'ed. Btw, onmousewheel="returnfalse" was a neat solution, but then
the mousewheel wouldn't move up & down in the text of the window after
jumping. window.focus nicely puts the focus back in the window so the
scroll wheel works as expected.

Thanks for the quick response.

-Amir
Received on Tue Oct 18 03:09:21 2005