WheelEvent

The WheelEvent interface represents events that occur due to the user moving a mouse wheel or similar input device.

Note: This is the standard wheel event interface to use. Old versions of browsers implemented the non-standard and non-cross-browser-compatible MouseWheelEvent and MouseScrollEvent interfaces. Use this interface and avoid the non-standard ones.

Note: Do not confuse the wheel event with the scroll event. The default action of a wheel event is implementation-defined. Thus, a wheel event doesn't necessarily dispatch a scroll event. Even when it does, that doesn't mean that the delta* values in the wheel event necessarily reflect the content's scrolling direction. Therefore, do not rely on delta* properties to get the content's scrolling direction. Instead, detect value changes to scrollLeft and scrollTop of the target in the scroll event.

Constructor

WheelEvent(): Creates a WheelEvent object.

Properties

This interface inherits properties from its ancestors, MouseEvent, UIEvent, and Event.

WheelEvent.deltaXRead only

Returns a double representing the horizontal scroll amount.

WheelEvent.deltaYRead only

Returns a double representing the vertical scroll amount.

WheelEvent.deltaZRead only

Returns a double representing the scroll amount for the z-axis.

WheelEvent.deltaModeRead only

Returns an unsigned long representing the unit of the delta* values' scroll amount. Permitted values are:

Constant	Value	Description
`WheelEvent.DOM_DELTA_PIXEL`	`0x00`	The `delta*` values are specified in pixels.
`WheelEvent.DOM_DELTA_LINE`	`0x01`	The `delta*` values are specified in lines. Each mouse click scrolls a line of content, where the method used to calculate line height is browser dependent.
`WheelEvent.DOM_DELTA_PAGE`	`0x02`	The `delta*` values are specified in pages. Each mouse click scrolls a page of content.

WheelEvent.wheelDeltaRead only

Returns an integer (32-bit) representing the distance in pixels.

WheelEvent.wheelDeltaXRead only

Returns an integer representing the horizontal scroll amount.

WheelEvent.wheelDeltaYRead only

Returns an integer representing the vertical scroll amount.

Note: Element: mousewheel event has additional documentation about the deprecated properties wheelDelta, wheelDeltaX, wheelDeltaY.

Methods

This interface doesn't define any specific methods, but inherits methods from its ancestors, MouseEvent, UIEvent, and Event.

Specifications

Specification
UI Events # interface-wheelevent

Browser compatibility

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