Detecting mousewheel on the x-axis (left and right) with Javascript

Question

I know it\'s possible to detect up and down e.g.

    function handle(delta) {
    if (delta < 0) {
        alert(\'down\');
} else {
    alert(\'up\');
           


        

Answer 1

• The DOMMouseWheel event in Firefox has an axis property.

• The mousewheel event in Chrome has wheelDeltaX and wheelDeltaY.

• Sadly, I cannot find any equivalent propery for IE events (testing on IE9).