Prevent a Google Maps iframe from capturing the mo

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• Disable mouse scroll wheel zoom on embedded Google Maps 30 answers

If you're browsing with an embedded maps iframe using your trackpad or mouse, you can potentially trap yourself into the Maps' zooming capabilities, which is really annoying.

Try it here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/embed/guide#overview

Is there a way to prevent this?

Answer 1

I'm re-editing the code written by #nathanielperales it really worked for me. Simple and easy to catch but its work only once. So I added mouseleave() on JavaScript. Idea adapted from #Bogdan And now its perfect. Try this. Credits goes to #nathanielperales and #Bogdan. I just combined both idea's. Thank you guys. I hope this will help others also...

HTML

<div class='embed-container maps'>
    <iframe width='600' height='450' frameborder='0' src='http://foo.com'>  </iframe>
</div>

CSS

.maps iframe{
    pointer-events: none;
}

jQuery

$('.maps').click(function () {
    $('.maps iframe').css("pointer-events", "auto");
});

$( ".maps" ).mouseleave(function() {
  $('.maps iframe').css("pointer-events", "none"); 
});

Improvise - Adapt - Overcome

And here is an jsFiddle example.

Answer 2

I`ve created a very simple jQuery plugin to resolve the problem. This plugin automatically wraps the map with a transparent div and a unlock button, so you'll must longpress them to activate navigation. Check it at https://diazemiliano.github.io/googlemaps-scrollprevent/

Here's some example.

(function() {
  $(function() {
    $("#btn-start").click(function() {
      $("iframe[src*='google.com/maps']").scrollprevent({
        printLog: true
      }).start();
      return $("#btn-stop").click(function() {
        return $("iframe[src*='google.com/maps']").scrollprevent().stop();
      });
    });
    return $("#btn-start").trigger("click");
  });
}).call(this);

Edit in JSFiddle Result JavaScript HTML CSS .embed-container {
  position: relative !important;
  padding-bottom: 56.25% !important;
  height: 0 !important;
  overflow: hidden !important;
  max-width: 100% !important;
}
.embed-container iframe {
  position: absolute !important;
  top: 0 !important;
  left: 0 !important;
  width: 100% !important;
  height: 100% !important;
}
.mapscroll-wrap {
  position: static !important;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/diazemiliano/googlemaps-scrollprevent/v.0.6.5/dist/googlemaps-scrollprevent.min.js"></script>
<div class="embed-container">
  <iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d12087.746318586604!2d-71.64614110000001!3d-40.76341959999999!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x9610bf42e48faa93%3A0x205ebc786470b636!2sVilla+la+Angostura%2C+Neuqu%C3%A9n!5e0!3m2!1ses-419!2sar!4v1425058155802"
  width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" style="border:0"></iframe>
</div>
<p><a id="btn-start" href="#">"Start Scroll Prevent"</a>  <a id="btn-stop" href="#">"Stop Scroll Prevent"</a>
</p>

Answer 3

yes, it is possible through scrollwheel:false.

var mapOptions = {
   center: new google.maps.LatLng(gps_x, gps_y),
   zoom: 16,//set this value to how much detail you want in the view
   disableDefaultUI: false,//set to true to disable all map controls,
   scrollwheel: false//set to true to enable mouse scrolling while inside the map area
 };

source

Answer 4

You can disable it with css.

iframe {
pointer-events: none;
}

Answer 5

you can set scroll-wheel: False; in the css property of the tag or tag to disable scrolling from Google maps when zoomed-in & zoomed-out.

Answer 6

This has been answered here => Disable mouse scroll wheel zoom on embedded Google Maps by Bogdan. What it does is that it will disable the mouse until you click onto the map and the mouse start working again, if you move the mouse out from the map the mouse will be disabled again.

Note: Does not work on IE < 11 (Working fine on IE 11)

CSS:

<style>
    .scrolloff {
        pointer-events: none;
    }
</style>

Script:

<script>
    $(document).ready(function () {

        // you want to enable the pointer events only on click;

        $('#map_canvas1').addClass('scrolloff'); // set the pointer events to none on doc ready
        $('#canvas1').on('click', function () {
            $('#map_canvas1').removeClass('scrolloff'); // set the pointer events true on click
        });

        // you want to disable pointer events when the mouse leave the canvas area;

        $("#map_canvas1").mouseleave(function () {
            $('#map_canvas1').addClass('scrolloff'); // set the pointer events to none when mouse leaves the map area
        });
    });
</script>

HTML: (just need to put correct id as defined in css and script)

<section id="canvas1" class="map">
     <iframe id="map_canvas1" src="https://www.google.com/maps/embe...." width="1170" height="400" frameborder="0" style="border: 0"></iframe>
</section>