Determine whether user clicking scrollbar or content (onclick for native scroll bar)
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A shortest scrollbar click detection I could come up with, tested on IE, Firefox, Chrome.
var clickedOnScrollbar = function(mouseX){
if( $(window).outerWidth() <= mouseX ){
return true;
}
}
$(document).mousedown(function(e){
if( clickedOnScrollbar(e.clientX) ){
alert("clicked on scrollbar");
}
});
Working example: https://jsfiddle.net/s6mho19z/
You may probably use this hack.
You could try hijacking the mousedown
and mouseup
events and avoiding them when click on a scrollbar with your custom powered function.
$.fn.mousedown = function(data, fn) {
if ( fn == null ) {
fn = data;
data = null;
}
var o = fn;
fn = function(e){
if(!inScrollRange(e)) {
return o.apply(this, arguments);
}
return;
};
if ( arguments.length > 0 ) {
return this.bind( "mousedown", data, fn );
}
return this.trigger( "mousedown" );
};
And the inverse for mousedownScroll
and mouseupScroll
events.
$.fn.mousedownScroll = function(data, fn) {
if ( fn == null ) {
fn = data;
data = null;
}
var o = fn;
fn = function(e){
if(inScrollRange(e)) {
e.type = "mousedownscroll";
return o.apply(this, arguments);
}
return;
};
if ( arguments.length > 0 ) {
return this.bind( "mousedown", data, fn );
}
return this.trigger( "mousedown" );
};
By the way, I think the scrollbar width is an OS setting.
Use following solution to detect if user clicked mouse over element's scrollbar. Didn't test how it works with window's scrollbar. I guess Pete's solution works better with window scrolls.
window.addEventListener("mousedown", onMouseDown);
function onMouseDown(e) {
if (e.offsetX > e.target.clientWidth || e.offsetY > e.target.clientHeight)
{
// mouse down over scroll element
}
}