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.
essentially I am wondering if it is possible to write a function so that if any item inside a specific container is clicked and nothing happens, it will alert that the feature has not been made available yet.
explanation:
what I mean by nothing happens is that the DOM or site does not change. So if a javascript or jquery function is called on click, it would not alert. if the item is a link to another site, it would not alert. but if nothing happens on the click event of an item inside a specified container, then it would alert.
The closest you could come would be to:
bind a click event handler to the container that would check if the event target was a link to another site and, if not, display the alert
make sure you stopPropagation() on all your event handlers.
Like this?
jsFiddle
$('a').on('click', function() {
if ($(this).attr('href') == '#') {
alert('the feature has not been made available yet.');
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
});
I have a click event that is defined already. I was wondering what the best way would be to append another event handler to this event without touching this code (if possible).
Is there a way to just append another event handler to the already defined click event?
This is the current click event definition:
$(".HwYesButton", "#HwQuizQuestions")
.append("<a href='javascript:void(0);' rel='.HwYesButton'>Yes</a>")
.click(function(event) {
var button = $(this).parent();
var questionId = button.attr('id');
$iadp.decisionPoint["HwQuizYourself"].Input.inputProvided(questionId);
button.find(".HwNoButton").removeClass("HwButtonSelected");
$(this).addClass("HwButtonSelected");
button.removeClass("HwQuestionSkipped");
$iadp.flat.setBoolean(questionId, true);
return false;
});
The only thing you can do is to attach another (additional) handler:
$(".HwYesButton", "#HwQuizQuestions").click(function() {
// something else
});
jQuery will call the handlers in the order in which they have been attached to the element.
You cannot "extend" the already defined handler.
Btw. your formulation is a bit imprecise. You are not defining a click event. You are only attaching click event handlers. The click event is generated by the browser when the user clicks on some element.
You can have as many click handlers as you want for one element. Maybe you are used to this in plain JavaScript:
element.onclick = function() {}
With this method you can indeed only attach one handler. But JavaScript provides some advanced event handling methods which I assume jQuery makes use of.
I know this is an old post, but perhaps this can still help someone since I still managed to stumble across this question during my search...
I am trying to do same kind of thing except I want my action to trigger BEFORE the existing inline onClick events. This is what I've done so far and it seems to be working ok after my initial tests. It probably won't handle events that aren't inline, such as those bound by other javascipt.
$(function() {
$("[onClick]").each(function(){
var x = $(this).attr("onClick");
$(this).removeAttr("onClick").unbind("click");
$(this).click(function(e){
// do what you want here...
eval(x); // do original action here...
});
});
});
You can just write another click event to the same and the both will get triggered. See it here
<a id="clickme">clickme</a>
<script>
$('#clickme').click(function () {
alert('first click handler triggered');
});
$('#clickme').click(function () {
alert('second click handler triggered');
});
</script>
Ajax can complicate the issue here. If you call two events the first being an ajax call, then the second event will probably fire well before the response comes back.
So even though the events are being fired in the correct order, what you really need is to get in to the callback function in the ajax call.
It's difficult to do without editing the original code.
Yes you can. Let's say that I have a tag cloud, and clicking a tag will remove the tag by default. Something like:
<div class="tags">
<div class="tag">Tag 1</div>
<div class="tag">Tag 2</div>
</div>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.tag').click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$(this).fadeOut('slow',function(){
$(this).remove();
});
return false;
});
});
</script>
Now let's say that's bundled into an included library for a project, but you want to provide a developer-friendly way to intercept those click events and prompt the user an AYS (Are You Sure?) dialog. In your mind you might be thinking something like:
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.tag').beforeRemove(function(){
if (AYS() === false) {
return false; // don't allow the removal
}
return true; // allow the removal
});
});
</script>
The solution, therefore, would be:
<div class="tags">
<div class="tag">Tag 1</div>
<div class="tag">Tag 2</div>
</div>
<script><!-- included library script -->
$(document).ready(function(){
$.fn.beforeRemove = $.fn.click;
$('BODY').on('click','.tag',function(e){
e.preventDefault();
console.log('debug: called standard click event');
$(this).fadeOut('slow',function(){
$(this).remove();
});
return false;
});
});
</script>
<script><!-- included in your page, after the library is loaded -->
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.tag').beforeRemove(function(){
var sWhich = $(this).text();
console.log('debug: before remove - ' + sWhich);
return false; // simulate AYS response was no
// change return false to true to simulate AYS response was yes
});
});
</script>
In this example, the trick is that we extended jQuery with a beforeRemove trigger that is a duplicate of the click trigger. Next, by making the library utilize the $('BODY').on('click','.tag',function(e){...}); handler, we made it delay and call after our page's beforeRemove trigger fired. Therefore, we could return false in beforeRemove if we got a negative AYS condition and therefore not allow the click event to continue.
So, run the above and you'll see that clicks on the tags won't remove the item. Now, switch the beforeRemove function to return true (as if you had a positive response to an AYS prompt), and the click event is allowed to continue. You have appended an event handler to a preexisting click event.
Is it possible to remove than add back click event to specific element? i.e
I have a $("#elem").click(function{//some behaviour});, $(".elem").click(function{//some behaviour});(there are more than 1 element) while my other function getJson is executing I'd like to remove the click event from the #elem, and add it again onsuccess from getJson function, but preserve both mouseenter and mouseleave events the whole time?
Or maybe create overlay to prevent clicking like in modal windows? is that better idea?
edit :
I've seen some really good answers, but there is one detail that I omitted not on purpose. There are more than one element, and I call the click function on the className not on elementId as I stated in the original question
Rather than using unbind(), which means you'll have to rebind the same event handler later, you can use jQuery's data() facility with the ajaxStart and ajaxStop events to have your elements ignore click events during all AJAX requests:
$(".elem").click(function() {
if (!$(this).data("ajaxRequestPending")) {
// some behaviour
}
}).ajaxStart(function() {
$(this).data("ajaxRequestPending", true);
}).ajaxStop(function() {
$(this).removeData("ajaxRequestPending");
});
EDIT: This answer is also id-to-class-proof (see questioner's edit), since everything matching the selector will handle the AJAX events the right way. That's the main selling point of jQuery, and it shows.
You are looking for .unbind(). Pass it 'click' and it will destroy the click event.
I would put it just before your getJSON and re-bind the click event inside the success handler of your ajax call.
You have to do some additional scripting. There is no callback for that. Take a look over here: jQuery - How can I temporarily disable the onclick event listener after the event has been fired?
Rather than unbinding/binding the click event, you could check the state of another variable to see if it should do the action.
var MyObject = {
requestActive = false;
};
function MyJsonFunction() {
// when requesting
MyObject.requestActive = true;
//...
// when request over
MyObject.requestActive = false;
}
$("#elem").click(function{
if (MyObject.requestActive == true) {
//do something
}
});
$('#myTable').click(function(e) {
var clicked = $(e.target);
clicked.css('background', 'red');
});
Can someone explain this to me, and explain why e is needed, and what it actually does..
Using e is just a short for event. You can pass any variable name you desire.
// would work just the same
$('#myTable').click(function(anyothername) {
var clicked = $(anyothername.target);
});
You can check out more on jQuery's handling of events.
One benefit to having e (the object that raised the event) allows you to prevent the propagation of default behaviors for certain elements. For example:
<a id="navLink" href="http://mysite/someOtherPage.htm">Click For Info</a>
renders a link that the user can click. If a user has JavaScript disabled (why? I dunno), you want the user to navigate to someOtherPage.htm when they click the link. But if they have JavaScript enabled, then you want to display a modal dialog and not navigate away from the page. You would handle this by preventing the default behavior of the anchor/link and displaying the modal as such:
$("#navLink").click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault(); //this prevents the user from navigating to the someOtherPage.htm
$("#hiddenDiv").dialog({
//options
}); //show the dialog
});
So having that parameter available allows you to, among other things described in other answers, prevent the default behavior of the selected element.
Hope this helps!
I'm speaking in theory as to I'm no expert but I achieved the desired result by using he the little (e) which doesn't have to be an e lol
I figured it out. It's a way of passing the same event from one function to another.
In simpler terms. I wanted to make the page navigation an elastic scroll function, however, I wanted the page to navigate by hover "and" I wanted the same navigation to be clickable upon certain conditions. I also wanted the same dynamic navigation from other click events that were not links. To keep the current target and still use the navigation function I had to set the little (e) because jQuery will lose the scope of $(this) as the same target of the function lol. Here's a quick example.
function navigate_to_page(e){
var target = $(e.currentTarget).attr('href'); //--This is the same as $(this) but more static to bring out of it's scope
$('html, body').animate({
'scrollTop':$(target).offset().top-0,
'scrollLeft': $(target).offset().left-$(window).width()*0.0}, 2000, 'easeOutBounce');
}
Don't let the gibberish confuse you. It's just a simple page scroll animation. The thing to pay attention to is the e.currentTarget. e is our variable and currentTarget is a jQuery equivalent to $(this) so those together is a Globular $(this) function.
Now I call it by another function with condistions like so
$('#myNavigationDiv a').on('mouseenter', function(e){
if($(myCondition) === true){
return false;
}else{
navigate_to_page(e);
}
});
See how the little (e) linked everything together?
Now you can substitute (e) to (whateveryouwant). By calling e in both functions it matched e.currentTarget and you can apply this to whatever detailed specific functions you need and save yourself LITERALLY pages of code lol
It's the formal parameter for the function. jQuery will pass in an event object when the function is called. This is used to determine the target. As noted in the documentation, jQuery will always pass an event object even when the browser (e.g. IE) doesn't.
In this case, the target tells you which element was originally clicked.