ipad safari: disable scrolling, and bounce effect?
You can use this jQuery code snippet to do this:
$(document).bind(
'touchmove',
function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
}
);
This will block the vertical scrolling and also any bounce back effect occurring on your pages.
You can also change the position of the body/html to fixed:
body,
html {
position: fixed;
}
To prevent scrolling on modern mobile browsers you need to add the passive: false. I had been pulling my hair out getting this to work until I found this solution. I have only found this mentioned in one other place on the internet.
function preventDefault(e){
e.preventDefault();
}
function disableScroll(){
document.body.addEventListener('touchmove', preventDefault, { passive: false });
}
function enableScroll(){
document.body.removeEventListener('touchmove', preventDefault);
}
This answer is no longer applicable, unless you are developing for a very old iOS device... Please see other solutions
2011 answer: For a web/html app running inside iOS Safari you want something like
document.ontouchmove = function(event){
event.preventDefault();
}
For iOS 5 you may want to take the following into account: document.ontouchmove and scrolling on iOS 5
Update September 2014:
A more thorough approach can be found here: https://github.com/luster-io/prevent-overscroll. For that and a whole lot of useful webapp advice, see http://www.luster.io/blog/9-29-14-mobile-web-checklist.html
Update March 2016: That last link is no longer active - see https://web.archive.org/web/20151103001838/http://www.luster.io/blog/9-29-14-mobile-web-checklist.html for the archived version instead. Thanks @falsarella for pointing that out.