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This is a user question, not about CSS. I have to scroll through longer websites a lot. If there are forms with textareas that contain longer Text (e.g. in phpMyAdmin), the scrolling process gets picked up by the textarea and the page's scrolling gets paused for a moment:

Scroll - Textarea scrolls to the end - Scroll on.

I find this very annoying. Is there a way to simply scroll through a page and NOT scroll it's elements?

I user Firefox on OSX, but I'm interested in a solution for any platform combination.

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Stack Overflow is for programming questions only, voted to move to Super User. – Andy E's head Sep 8 '10 at 13:50
Uh sorry I agree – Urs Sep 8 '10 at 19:35
Though annoying for textareas, I doubt this can be fixed without driving you crazy. It's a feature of scrolling in OS X to not have to activate the area you want to scroll: scrolling is applied to the part of the screen the mouse is hovering, not to the part that happens to have true focus (which is the case in Windows, unless using something like KatMouse). So, just to be sure you understand why this happens: ensure the mouse pointer is in a part that does not have such textareas (like the scrollbar, as per Matt's answer, or any other part of the website). – Arjan Dec 19 '10 at 13:35
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Use your mouse to drag the browser's scroll bar, or to click the scroll arrows. Or, keep your cursor over the scroll bar while using the scroll wheel.

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Thanks. Would like to vote but as it's moved to Super User, I can't. – Urs Sep 10 '10 at 18:19
And there is no special key I can press whilst using the scroll wheel? – Urs Sep 10 '10 at 18:20
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