Title: disable background scrolling
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# disable background scrolling

 *  Resolved [polyfade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/polyfade/)
 * (@polyfade)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-background-scrolling/)
 * I realize this plugin does not use fancybox v2 where disabling the background
   from scrolling is the default.
 * But, is there any way with this plugin to disable the background from scrolling
   when fancybox is active? Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense why you’d want this
   to occur and make the viewer lose his/her spot on the page.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-fancybox/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-fancybox/)

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 *  [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * (@ravanh)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-background-scrolling/#post-4090858)
 * It makes sense to disable scrolling for the background… But it will take a mod
   to the script. Going on the “to figure out” list, unless you can provide a quick
   code patch 😉
 *  [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * (@ravanh)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-background-scrolling/#post-4090869)
 * In fact, I think it’s done: Could you uninstall the current version and install
   fresh from the WordPress installer? It should now capture all scrolling as long
   as the jQuery mousewheel script is included…
 *  Thread Starter [polyfade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/polyfade/)
 * (@polyfade)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-background-scrolling/#post-4090991)
 * RavanH,
 * Thanks for the quick response. Yes, activating that option, “Include the Mousewheel
   jQuery extension script to allow gallery browsing by mousewheel action” did the
   trick.
 * I guess this inadvertently solves the problem since the mousewheel’s purpose 
   would be set to scroll though the gallery instead of using the scroll action 
   for any other purpose.
 * Cheers!
 *  [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * (@ravanh)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-background-scrolling/#post-4090999)
 * > I guess this inadvertently solves the problem since the mousewheel’s purpose
   > would be set to scroll though the gallery instead of using the scroll action
   > for any other purpose.
 * In the old version, that option did only capture scrolling when the mouse pointer
   was over the image. Now, scrolling is always captured as long as the lightbox
   is open…

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