Disabling middle click scrolling with javascript

Question

Background: I am creating a table reminiscent of whenisgood.net, in that it has click-n-drag toggling for table elements. I want to call different types of

Answer 1

This is an old question...but if I'm understanding it properly, you want to disable scrolling via the middle mouse button click.

Nowadays, you can do this with a single line of vanilla JS:

document.body.onmousedown = function(e) { if (e.button === 1) return false; }