iOS Safari – How to disable overscroll but allow scrollable divs to scroll normally?

Question

I\'m working on an iPad-based web app, and need to prevent overscrolling so that it seems less like a web page. I\'m currently using this to freeze the viewport and disable

Answer 1

Using Tyler Dodge's excellent answer kept lagging on my iPad, so I added some throttling code, now it's quite smooth. There is some minimal skipping sometimes while scrolling.

// Uses document because document will be topmost level in bubbling
$(document).on('touchmove',function(e){
  e.preventDefault();
});

var scrolling = false;

// Uses body because jquery on events are called off of the element they are
// added to, so bubbling would not work if we used document instead.
$('body').on('touchstart','.scrollable',function(e) {

    // Only execute the below code once at a time
    if (!scrolling) {
        scrolling = true;   
        if (e.currentTarget.scrollTop === 0) {
          e.currentTarget.scrollTop = 1;
        } else if (e.currentTarget.scrollHeight === e.currentTarget.scrollTop + e.currentTarget.offsetHeight) {
          e.currentTarget.scrollTop -= 1;
        }
        scrolling = false;
    }
});

// Prevents preventDefault from being called on document if it sees a scrollable div
$('body').on('touchmove','.scrollable',function(e) {
  e.stopPropagation();
});

Also, adding the following CSS fixes some rendering glitches (source):

.scrollable {
    overflow: auto;
    overflow-x: hidden;
    -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
}
.scrollable * {
    -webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0);
}