mousewheel event is not triggering in firefox browser

Question

Please refer the below code.

$(this.element).on("mousewheel", this.chartMouseWheel);

chartMouseWheel:function(e) {
        if(e.originalEvent.wheelDelta /120 > 0) {
            alert('scrolling up !');
        }
        else{
          alert('scrolling down !');
        }

        if (e.preventDefault)
        e.preventDefault();
        e.returnValue = false;
    },

this event triggering properly in IE,chrome and not triggering in Firefox ?

Answer 1

This is 2017 and the right answer is now:

$(window).on('wheel', function(event){

    // deltaY obviously records vertical scroll, deltaX and deltaZ exist too
    if(event.originalEvent.deltaY < 0){
        // wheeled up
    }
    else {
        // wheeled down
    }
});

Works with current Firefox 51, Chrome 56, IE9+

Note: The value of the deltas will depend on the browser and the user settings.