Prevent page navigation on horizontal scroll

Question

I am using a mac trackpad.How to prevent the page going back and next to visited pages on horizontal scroll ?.

I tried to prevent the wheel events but it doesn't works most of the time.

container.addEventListener('wheel', function(ev) {
    ev.preventDefault();
    ev.stopPropagation();
    return false;
}, {passive: false, capture: true});

even I tried blocking with mousewheel event which also leads to page navigation.

Answer 1

You can do this with CSS.

html {
  overscroll-behavior-x: contain;
}

Documented for Chrome here.

contain - prevents scroll chaining. Scrolls do not propagate to ancestors but local effects within the node are shown. For example, the overscroll glow effect on Android or the rubberbanding effect on iOS which notifies the user when they've hit a scroll boundary. Note: using overscroll-behavior: contain on the html element prevents overscroll navigation actions.

Tested on chrome version 77 OSX

Note: This is still a non-standard CSS property: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/overscroll-behavior