Get mouse wheel events in jQuery?

Question

Is there a way to get the mouse wheel events (not talking about scroll events) in jQuery?

Answer 1

This is working in each IE, Firefox and Chrome's latest versions.

$(document).ready(function(){
        $('#whole').bind('DOMMouseScroll mousewheel', function(e){
            if(e.originalEvent.wheelDelta > 0 || e.originalEvent.detail < 0) {
                alert("up");
            }
            else{
                alert("down");
            }
        });
    });