Stop chrome back/forward two finger swipe

Question

I want to disable the two finger swipe that causes Chrome going back or forward. I have a website where the user might lose progress on his work if he doesn't specifically saves.

I have tried using window.onbeforeunload but that doesn't seem to work if I have hashes in the url (back forward would change between www.example.com/work/#step1#unsaved www.example.com/work/#step0) and the event doesn't seem to trigger.

I was about to switch to another solution but today I noticed that in Google Docs it's completely disabled. How did they achieve that?

Answer 1

Disable Chrome two fingers back/forward swipe

This worked for me:

body {   overscroll-behavior-x: none; } 

Answer 2

Make the specific page open in a new tab/window by default (by putting target="_blank"> in hyperlink). That way there'll be no previous page to go back to.

Or prevent Horizontal Scrolling by default. To do that, you can use jquery.mousewheel to do:

$(document).on("mousewheel",function(event,delta){    // prevent horizontal scrolling   if (event.originalEvent.wheelDeltaX !== 0) {     event.preventDefault();   }  });