Any way to prevent horizontal scrolling triggering swipe back gesture on OS X Lion Safari?

Question

I am working on a UI that uses horizontal scrolling in a div element (using overflow: scroll). I cannot scroll to the left, because it would start the

Answer 1

I also used jQuery mousewheel, attaching this callback:

onMousewheel: function(e, delta, deltaX, deltaY){
  e.preventDefault();
  $('leftElement').scrollLeft($('leftElement').scrollLeft() + deltaX); // leftElement =     container element I want to scroll left without going back/forward
  $('downElement').scrollTop($('downElement').scrollTop() - deltaY); // this was another element within the container element
}