How can I determine the direction of a jQuery scroll event?

Question

I\'m looking for something to this effect:

$(window).scroll(function(event){
   if (/* magic code*/ ){
       // upscroll code
   } else {
      // downscrol         


        

Answer 1

Scroll Event

The scroll event behaves oddly in FF (it is fired a lot of times because of the smoothness scrolling) but it works.

Note: The scroll event actually is fired when dragging the scroll bar, using cursor keys or mousewheel.

//creates an element to print the scroll position
$("
").appendTo("body").css({
    padding: "5px 7px",
    background: "#e9e9e9",
    position: "fixed",
    bottom: "15px",
    left: "35px"
});

//binds the "scroll" event
$(window).scroll(function (e) {
    var target = e.currentTarget,
        self = $(target),
        scrollTop = window.pageYOffset || target.scrollTop,
        lastScrollTop = self.data("lastScrollTop") || 0,
        scrollHeight = target.scrollHeight || document.body.scrollHeight,
        scrollText = "";

    if (scrollTop > lastScrollTop) {
        scrollText = "scroll down";
    } else {
        scrollText = "scroll up";
    }

    $("#test").html(scrollText +
      "
innerHeight: " + self.innerHeight() +
      "
scrollHeight: " + scrollHeight +
      "
scrollTop: " + scrollTop +
      "
lastScrollTop: " + lastScrollTop);

    if (scrollHeight - scrollTop === self.innerHeight()) {
      console.log("► End of scroll");
    }

    //saves the current scrollTop
    self.data("lastScrollTop", scrollTop);
});

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Wheel Event

You also may take a look at MDN, it exposes a great information about the Wheel Event.

Note: The wheel event is fired only when using the mousewheel; cursor keys and dragging the scroll bar does not fire the event.

I read the document and the example: Listening to this event across browser
and after some tests with FF, IE, chrome, safari, I ended up with this snippet:

//creates an element to print the scroll position
$("
").appendTo("body").css({
    padding: "5px 7px",
    background: "#e9e9e9",
    position: "fixed",
    bottom: "15px",
    left: "15px"
});

//attach the "wheel" event if it is supported, otherwise "mousewheel" event is used
$("html").on(("onwheel" in document.createElement("div") ? "wheel" : "mousewheel"), function (e) {
    var evt = e.originalEvent || e;

    //this is what really matters
    var deltaY = evt.deltaY || (-1 / 40 * evt.wheelDelta), //wheel || mousewheel
        scrollTop = $(this).scrollTop() || $("body").scrollTop(), //fix safari
        scrollText = "";

    if (deltaY > 0) {
        scrollText = "scroll down";
    } else {
        scrollText = "scroll up";
    }

    //console.log("Event: ", evt);
    $("#test").html(scrollText +
      "
clientHeight: " + this.clientHeight +
      "
scrollHeight: " + this.scrollHeight +
      "
scrollTop: " + scrollTop +
      "
deltaY: " + deltaY);
});