I have an input type="image". This acts like the cell notes in Microsoft Excel. If someone enters a number into the text box that this input-image is paired with, I setup an event handler for the input-image. Then when the user clicks the image, they get a little popup to add some notes to the data.
My problem is that when a user enters a zero into the text box, I need to disable the input-image's event handler. I have tried the following, but to no avail.
$('#myimage').click(function { return false; });
jQuery ≥ 1.7
With jQuery 1.7 onward the event API has been updated, .bind()/.unbind() are still available for backwards compatibility, but the preferred method is using the on()/off() functions. The below would now be,
$('#myimage').click(function() { return false; }); // Adds another click event
$('#myimage').off('click');
$('#myimage').on('click.mynamespace', function() { /* Do stuff */ });
$('#myimage').off('click.mynamespace');
jQuery < 1.7
In your example code you are simply adding another click event to the image, not overriding the previous one:
$('#myimage').click(function() { return false; }); // Adds another click event
Both click events will then get fired.
As people have said you can use unbind to remove all click events:
$('#myimage').unbind('click');
If you want to add a single event and then remove it (without removing any others that might have been added) then you can use event namespacing:
$('#myimage').bind('click.mynamespace', function() { /* Do stuff */ });
and to remove just your event:
$('#myimage').unbind('click.mynamespace');
This wasn't available when this question was answered, but you can also use the live() method to enable/disable events.
$('#myimage:not(.disabled)').live('click', myclickevent);
$('#mydisablebutton').click( function () { $('#myimage').addClass('disabled'); });
What will happen with this code is that when you click #mydisablebutton, it will add the class disabled to the #myimage element. This will make it so that the selector no longer matches the element and the event will not be fired until the 'disabled' class is removed making the .live() selector valid again.
This has other benefits by adding styling based on that class as well.
This can be done by using the unbind function.
$('#myimage').unbind('click');
You can add multiple event handlers to the same object and event in jquery. This means adding a new one doesn't replace the old ones.
There are several strategies for changing event handlers, such as event namespaces. There are some pages about this in the online docs.
Look at this question (that's how I learned of unbind). There is some useful description of these strategies in the answers.
How to read bound hover callback functions in jquery
If you want to respond to an event just one time, the following syntax should be really helpful:
$('.myLink').bind('click', function() {
//do some things
$(this).unbind('click', arguments.callee); //unbind *just this handler*
});
Using arguments.callee, we can ensure that the one specific anonymous-function handler is removed, and thus, have a single time handler for a given event. Hope this helps others.
maybe the unbind method will work for you
$("#myimage").unbind("click");
I had to set the event to null using the prop and the attr. I couldn't do it with one or the other. I also could not get .unbind to work. I am working on a TD element.
.prop("onclick", null).attr("onclick", null)
If event is attached this way, and the target is to be unattached:
$('#container').on('click','span',function(eo){
alert(1);
$(this).off(); //seams easy, but does not work
$('#container').off('click','span'); //clears click event for every span
$(this).on("click",function(){return false;}); //this works.
});
You may be adding the onclick handler as inline markup:
<input id="addreport" type="button" value="Add New Report" onclick="openAdd()" />
If so, the jquery .off() or .unbind() won't work. You need to add the original event handler in jquery as well:
$("#addreport").on("click", "", function (e) {
openAdd();
});
Then the jquery has a reference to the event handler and can remove it:
$("#addreport").off("click")
VoidKing mentions this a little more obliquely in a comment above.
If you use $(document).on() to add a listener to a dynamically created element then you may have to use the following to remove it:
// add the listener
$(document).on('click','.element',function(){
// stuff
});
// remove the listener
$(document).off("click", ".element");
To remove ALL event-handlers, this is what worked for me:
To remove all event handlers mean to have the plain HTML structure without all the event handlers attached to the element and its child nodes. To do this, jQuery's clone() helped.
var original, clone;
// element with id my-div and its child nodes have some event-handlers
original = $('#my-div');
clone = original.clone();
//
original.replaceWith(clone);
With this, we'll have the clone in place of the original with no event-handlers on it.
Good Luck...
Updated for 2014
Using the latest version of jQuery, you're now able to unbind all events on a namespace by simply doing $( "#foo" ).off( ".myNamespace" );
Best way to remove inline onclick event is $(element).prop('onclick', null);
Thanks for the information. very helpful i used it for locking page interaction while in edit mode by another user. I used it in conjunction with ajaxComplete. Not necesarily the same behavior but somewhat similar.
function userPageLock(){
$("body").bind("ajaxComplete.lockpage", function(){
$("body").unbind("ajaxComplete.lockpage");
executePageLock();
});
};
function executePageLock(){
//do something
}
In case .on() method was previously used with particular selector, like in the following example:
$('body').on('click', '.dynamicTarget', function () {
// Code goes here
});
Both unbind() and .off() methods are not going to work.
However, .undelegate() method could be used to completely remove handler from the event for all elements which match the current selector:
$("body").undelegate(".dynamicTarget", "click")
I know this comes in late, but why not use plain JS to remove the event?
var myElement = document.getElementById("your_ID");
myElement.onclick = null;
or, if you use a named function as an event handler:
function eh(event){...}
var myElement = document.getElementById("your_ID");
myElement.addEventListener("click",eh); // add event handler
myElement.removeEventListener("click",eh); //remove it
This also works fine .Simple and easy.see http://jsfiddle.net/uZc8w/570/
$('#myimage').removeAttr("click");
if you set the onclick via html you need to removeAttr ($(this).removeAttr('onclick'))
if you set it via jquery (as the after the first click in my examples above) then you need to unbind($(this).unbind('click'))
All the approaches described did not work for me because I was adding the click event with on() to the document where the element was created at run-time:
$(document).on("click", ".button", function() {
doSomething();
});
My workaround:
As I could not unbind the ".button" class I just assigned another class to the button that had the same CSS styles. By doing so the live/on-event-handler ignored the click finally:
// prevent another click on the button by assigning another class
$(".button").attr("class","buttonOff");
Hope that helps.
Hope my below code explains all.
HTML:
(function($){
$("#btn_add").on("click",function(){
$("#btn_click").on("click",added_handler);
alert("Added new handler to button 1");
});
$("#btn_remove").on("click",function(){
$("#btn_click").off("click",added_handler);
alert("Removed new handler to button 1");
});
function fixed_handler(){
alert("Fixed handler");
}
function added_handler(){
alert("new handler");
}
$("#btn_click").on("click",fixed_handler);
$("#btn_fixed").on("click",fixed_handler);
})(jQuery);
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<button id="btn_click">Button 1</button>
<button id="btn_add">Add Handler</button>
<button id="btn_remove">Remove Handler</button>
<button id="btn_fixed">Fixed Handler</button>
I had an interesting case relevant to this come up at work today where there was a scroll event handler for $(window).
// TO ELIMINATE THE RE-SELECTION AND
// RE-CREATION OF THE SAME OBJECT REDUNDANTLY IN THE FOLLOWING SNIPPETS
let $window = $(window);
$window.on('scroll', function() { .... });
But, to revoke that event handler, we can't just use
$window.off('scroll');
because there are likely other scroll event handlers on this very common target, and I'm not interested in hosing that other functionality (known or unknown) by turning off all of the scroll handlers.
My solution was to first abstract the handler functionality into a named function, and use that in the event listener setup.
function handleScrollingForXYZ() { ...... }
$window.on('scroll', handleScrollingForXYZ);
And then, conditionally, when we need to revoke that, I did this:
$window.off('scroll', $window, handleScrollingForXYZ);
The janky part is the 2nd parameter, which is redundantly selecting the original selector. But, the jquery documentation for .off() only provides one method signature for specifying the handler to remove, which requires this middle parameter to be
A selector which should match the one originally passed to .on() when attaching event handlers.
I haven't ventured to test it out with a null or '' as the 2nd parameter, but perhaps the redundant $window isn't necessary.
I have a jQuery plugin, and inside of it I have an init function. Inside of this init-function I attach some events:
(function ( $ ) {
$.fn.gallery = function(options) {
var init = function(self) {
var main += '<input id="gallery-search">';
//click event for the filter checkboxes
$("body").on('click', self.selector+" .gallery-filter-checkbox",function(event) {
self.data(filter( self ));
});
//capture input in the search box
$('#gallery-search').keyup(function(){
console.log('test');
});
self.html(output);
}
}( jQuery ));
}
The first one works just fine, but the second one doesn't work at all. I have tested it outside of the plugin scope and it works just fine so there is no syntax error, but probably an error in the way I try and attach the event?
Since #gallery-search is created dynamically, you can use delegated event handler:
$(document).on('keyup', '#gallery-search', function() { ... });
If self represents static HTML element at page, you can use a little better (for performance) version:
self.on('keyup', '#gallery-search', function() { ... });
Or you can place event handler in code after element's insertion, if HTML will not be modified later:
self.html(output);
$('#gallery-search').keyup(function()
{
console.log('test');
});
keyup() is a shortcut for bind('keyup',callback) which will register some event handler on the elements that are already present in the DOM (not necessarily rendered). It won't work if the element is not present in DOM when it's defined. To do that you need to use delegate() which will attach some handler on an element which is currently available or in might be available in future.
From jQuery 1.7 onwards, it's recommended to use on() as it combines the functionality of bind / delegate / live.
on() can be used in two ways
$(selector).on('event',callback);
$(parentSelector).on('event','someChildSelector', callback);
First one is direct handler and second one is called delegated handler.
If you're using first one to register event handlers, you've to make sure that element is present in the DOM at the time of registering just like bind(). So if you're adding new elements, you have to attach that handler again.
If you're using the second way, you don't have to worry about registering the handler again
$(document).on('click','.row',callback);
As document is always available, you callback will be registered as click handler for all the existing rows and any new row that you might add in the future.
I strongly recommend you read the Direct and delegated events section here. They even explain about the performance benefits.
Now that you know how it works, you can fix it using on() either as a direct handler or as a delegated handler.
EDIT : It's better to use closest static parent than document/body when using on() to register delegated handlers. Thanks to Regent for suggesting that :)
$('closestStaticParent').on('keyup','#gallery-search',function(){
console.log('test');
});
I have the <div id="SocialInteract">
$('#SocialInteract').click(function() {
$('#SocialCount').load('sc.php');
$('#TeacherAttendance').removeAttr('id');
});
When I view the InspectElement the #id is removed but it still takes the click. Something I am doing wrong?
Your click event still fires because the event is already attached to the TeacherAttendance element.
If you want to detach the click event, you should use off() or unbind() :
$('#TeacherAttendance').off('click');
$('#TeacherAttendance').unbind('click');
Removing id wont remove already attached click event. Use unbind() method to remove attached event.
$('#TeacherAttendance').unbind("click");
EDIT :
You should use off() as its the updated one. unbind() is still there for backword compatibility
$('#TeacherAttendance').off('click');
Related question : Best way to remove an event handler in jQuery?
You are binding to the DOM element the event, then you remove the id but the event it's already registered.
use off or unbind or set a global var to turnoff/remove/doNothing .
.click() just attaches and forgets. It doesn't care whether anything happens to that element.
So you've to manually unbind the event.
.unbind('click');
To make the event binding dynamic, attack it to the document and wait for it to bubble up:
$(document).on('click', #SocialInteract', function() {
$('#SocialCount').load('sc.php');
$('#TeacherAttendance').removeAttr('id');
});
This way the event is registered to the document node: if the click event was fired on an element that had that ID, it will trigger. If not, it won't.
Suppose i have a component, inputType="text" with id ="cmp";
In a js file ,
$("input[type='text']").bind('keypress', function(e) {
//Case 1
});
In my jsp file,
$("#cmp").keypress(function() {
//Case 2
});
Now I need to remove only one keypress event.
Is it possible to remove the keypress event for id ="cmp" that is registered from js file.
But we should not not remove event that is registered from jsp file.
Note:
According to my requirement, I cannot change .js file.
you can use off of jquery method to remove events Jquery OFf
The off() method removes event handlers that were attached with .on().
See the discussion of delegated and directly bound events on that page
for more information. Specific event handlers can be removed on
elements by providing combinations of event names, namespaces,
selectors, or handler function names. When multiple filtering
arguments are given, all of the arguments provided must match for the
event handler to be removed.
$('#cmp').off('keypress');
use off()
off: Remove an event handler.
$('#cmp').off('keypress');
You will want to use either .unbind() or .off() (jQuery 1.7+) depending on how the event was originally attached and what version of jQuery you are using.
// Prior to jQuery 1.7
$("#cmp").unbind("keypress");
// jQuery 1.7+
$("#cmp").off("keypress");
If you can modify the original location where you are binding the event handler, you might also be able to use event namespaces to remove only a specifically named event.
// Original binding
$("#cmp").on("keypress.someName", function() {
...
});
// Unbinding
$("#cmp").off("keypress.someName");
EXAMPLE
this code in book jQuery in action page 131
i don't understand
.trigger('adjustName');
what is adjustName
and Simple explanation for trigger()
thanks :)
$('#addFilterButton').click( function() {
var filterItem = $('<div>')
.addClass('filterItem')
.appendTo('#filterPane')
.data('suffix','.' + (filterCount++));
$('div.template.filterChooser')
.children().clone().appendTo(filterItem)
.trigger('adjustName');
});
It is a string, the name of a custom event you defined.
E.g. it would trigger the event handler bound by:
el.bind('adjustName', function(){...});
For more information I suggest to have a look at the documentation:
Any event handlers attached with .bind() or one of its shortcut methods are triggered when the corresponding event occurs. They can be fired manually, however, with the .trigger() method. A call to .trigger() executes the handlers in the same order they would be if the event were triggered naturally by the user.
Without knowing the context of the code, I would say that calling .trigger() here has no effect, as it is called on the cloneed elements and the event handlers are only cloned if true is passed to clone.
Maybe the original jQuery manual could be helpful?
Description: Execute all handlers and
behaviors attached to the matched
elements for the given event type.
It allows you to trigger, or run, an event. For instance if you wanted the code to mimic the clicking of a button, you could write....
$("#myButton").trigger('click');
This would then run exactly as if you had clicked the button yourself.
'adjustName' is a custom event. So the trigger function is running that custom event. The custom event is assigned using the jQuery bind function.
$("#someElement").bind('adjustName', function() {/* Some Code */});
You might create a customer event for clarity. Perhaps your application opens a document, so you might want an event called 'openDocument' and 'closeDocument' assigned to the element containing the document.