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
I had this problem and this works for me (using jquery):
$(document).ready( function (){
$('#fixed').on('mousewheel',function(event) {
var scroll = $('#container').scrollTop();
$('#container').scrollTop(scroll - event.originalEvent.wheelDeltaY);
return true;
});
});
Works on Safari and Chrome: http://jsfiddle.net/5bwWe/36/