Div that swallows touch events

by rbyers

HTML

<div id='box'>
</div>
<div id='long'>
<div>

CSS

#box {
  background-color: blue;
  position: absolute;
  top: 10px;
  left: 10px;
  width: 200px;
  height: 400px;    
}

#long {
  height: 5000px;
  width: 100px;
  border: 1px dashed red;
}

JavaScript

var b = document.getElementById('box');
b.addEventListener('touchstart', function(e) {
  e.preventDefault();            
});