Determine whether user clicking scrollbar or content (onclick for native scroll bar)
Solved: A shortest scrollbar click detection I could come up with, tested on IE, Firefox, Chrome. var clickedOnScrollbar = function(mouseX){ if( $(window).outerWidth() <= mouseX ){ return true; } } $(document).mousedown(function(e){ if( clickedOnScrollbar(e.clientX) ){ alert(“clicked on scrollbar”); } }); Working example: https://jsfiddle.net/s6mho19z/