Pass mousewheel event through fixed content

Question

The best way to understand this is to look at this fiddle.

Notice how mouse wheel over the fixed content in the red box does nothing. I would like the

Answer 1

A much, MUCH simpler, but much less widely supported, answer is the following:

#fixed{ pointer-events:none; }

jsFiddle
Doesn't work in IE at all though unfortunately! But you could use modernizr or somesuch to detect whether it was supported and use the jQuery as a stop-gap where it isn't.

Courtesy of Mr. Dominic Stubbs