To differentiate between scroll up/down in jQuery, you could use:
var mousewheelevt = (/Firefox/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) ? "DOMMouseScroll" : "mousewheel" //FF doesn't recognize mousewheel as of FF3.x
$('#yourDiv').bind(mousewheelevt, function(e){
var evt = window.event || e //equalize event object
evt = evt.originalEvent ? evt.originalEvent : evt; //convert to originalEvent if possible
var delta = evt.detail ? evt.detail*(-40) : evt.wheelDelta //check for detail first, because it is used by Opera and FF
if(delta > 0) {
//scroll up
}
else{
//scroll down
}
});
This method also works in divs that have overflow:hidden
.
I successfully tested it in FireFox, IE and Chrome.