This is not so much of a question as it is an solution to the question.
It was difficult find a solution until I stumbled across the answer in added by hallodom (How to disable scrolling temporarily?) which was responding to a slightly different problem.
I wanted to explicitly document an answer to the problem. Other solutions are most welcome and would add to the conversation.
hallodom's solution was:
For mobile devices, you'll need to handle the touchmove
event:
$('body').bind('touchmove', function(e){e.preventDefault()})
And unbind to re-enable scrolling. Tested in iOS6 and Android 2.3.3
$('body').unbind('touchmove')
I used hallodom's solution by simply attaching them to functions called when an object in my DOM was clicked:
$('body').on('click', 'button', function(e){
if($(this).prop('checked')){
disable_scroll();
}else{
enable_scroll();
}
});
function disable_scroll() {
$('body').bind('touchmove', function(e){e.preventDefault()});
}
function enable_scroll() {
$('body').unbind('touchmove');
}