HTML - Capture horizontal scroll event on Canvas when text too long

Question

We are putting editable text on a canvas. When I add a lot of characters beyond the width of the canvas, the canvas wants to scroll. I want to prevent that scroll.

I think I want to capture the scroll with an event, and call preventDefault, or something. We never want the canvas to scroll.

I cannot set the overflow property of the canvas to 'none', it needs to remain hidden so that elements that are off the canvas are hidden.

How can I capture this horizontal scroll event? Thanks

[This answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/7503143/491897) contains info that may be useful to you — Ben Siver, Feb 13 '14 at 20:29

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 13 '14 at 20:36

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the canvas element itself cannot scroll!!!!

i think you put the complete canvas into a div which can be scrolled. so you have to cancel Defaults on that div

answered Feb 13 '14 at 20:36

show the html where the canvas is integrated, or link to page. – Feb 13 '14 at 22:30

HTML - Capture horizontal scroll event on Canvas when text too long

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