I have a component that resizes into a horizontal row of bootstrap cards when in a smaller desktop window. For users without a horizontal mouse wheel and not using a touchpad, I would like to allow users to scroll horizontally using their vertical mouse wheel movements when hovering over this particular component.
Here is the original StackOverflow issue I based my code off of:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/15343916/8387497
Horizontal Scroll helper component:
function horizontalScroll (event) {
const delta = Math.max(-1, Math.min(1, (event.nativeEvent.wheelDelta || -event.nativeEvent.detail)))
event.currentTarget.scrollLeft -= (delta * 10)
event.preventDefault
}
How I've implemented it on component requiring horizontal scrolling:
When I've placed this horizontalScroll helper function within the R