How can I create a step-by-step guide for making a Horizontal Scrolling Website with functional scroll-wheel using Webflow?

To create a horizontal scrolling website with functional scroll-wheel in Webflow, you'll need to use horizontal scrolling interactions configured with Webflow’s IX2 (interactions) and overflow techniques.

1. Set Up Your Page Structure

• Wrap all content you want to scroll horizontally inside a parent div block (e.g., "Horizontal Wrapper").
• Inside it, create a horizontal content container (e.g., "Horizontal Track") that holds individual section blocks (e.g., "Panel 1", "Panel 2", etc.) laid out side by side.
• Set Display: flex and Direction: horizontal on your Horizontal Track so sections sit next to each other.

2. Structure Element Settings

• Set Horizontal Wrapper:

• Overflow: hidden

• Position: relative

• Width: 100vw

• Height: 100vh

• Set Horizontal Track (the inner content):

• Display: flex

• Position: absolute or relative depending on scroll animation style

• Set width to accommodate all panels (e.g., if 5 panels at 100vw each → 500vw)

• Set each Panel:

• Width: 100vw

• Height: 100vh

• Add your content inside each panel

3. Add Scroll Animation (IX2)

• Go to Interactions (lightning icon) panel → Page Trigger → While Page is Scrolling.
• Choose "Scroll Animations" → Click + Timed Animations.
• Create a new animation (e.g., “Horizontal Scroll”).

4. Configure Animation Steps

• Choose the Horizontal Track as the target element.
• Use a Move interaction:
• Adjust the X-axis from 0% to -400% (for example, if you have 5 panels — last panel being at -400%)
• This simulates horizontal movement based on vertical scroll.
• Define the scroll range to control when animation occurs:
• Set scroll trigger area: either use full page body or a specific wrapper
• Adjust scroll percentages based on the height and structure

5. Enable Smooth Scroll Wheel Functionality

• For scroll-wheel to work naturally:
• Keep standard vertical scrolling on the body
• Rely on the scroll interaction to translate vertical scroll into horizontal movement visually
• Do not use horizontal scrolling containers or overflow-x: scroll, as Webflow doesn’t support scroll-wheel horizontal behavior natively for these
• Instead, fake the horizontal scroll with animations bound to normal vertical scroll

6. Pin the Scroll Section (Optional)

• To create a dedicated “horizontal scroll section” in the middle of a longer page:
• Set the wrapper to position: sticky or use the “While Scrolling In View” interaction trigger
• Pin the horizontal wrapper while the horizontal animation plays
• Set Height of Scroll Section to equal the total scroll length (e.g., number of panels × 100vh)

7. Publish and Test

• Publish your site to preview real scroll behavior; Designer preview does not simulate scroll-wheel interactions well.
• Test on desktop and multiple browsers for scroll smoothness.

Summary

To create a horizontal scrolling website with scroll-wheel support in Webflow, structure your sections side by side in a wide flexbox container and animate the horizontal movement using scroll-triggered interactions tied to vertical scroll. This setup preserves scroll-wheel functionality and works across modern browsers.