Scrolling changes values instead of moving the window contents - how to change?

When the mouse hovers over a slider, spinbox, or dropdown menu, scrolling will adjust its value rather than scroll the window content. How can I change this behaviour?
It often happened to me that I changed settings unintentionally, this is very annoying.
I am using KDE Neon, btw

i think just depends on the focus of where the cursor is pointed… i don’t know of a way to have the scroll wheel work when focused on somethings and not work when focused on other things.

you just need to pointed at the page or the slider before you scroll if you only want to move the page.