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

Check the accepted answer for more links and info.

Bubbling scroll/mousewheel event

event.detail specifies the number of "ticks" that the mouse wheel moved.

Positive values mean down/right", negative up/left.

event.axis specifies the axis of the scroll gesture (horizontal or vertical). This attribute was added in Firefox 3.5

Chrome implements the same behavior as IE AFAIK. In IE and Chrome: use e.wheelDeltaX and e.wheelDeltaY