how to unbind all event using jquery

Question

i can use this code to remove click event,

$('p').unbind('click')

but , has some method to remove all event ?

has a method named unbindAll in jquery ?

thanks

Keenan

It would be worth changing your accepted answer from Nick's to totallyNotLizards' because .unbind() is deprecated. – Kayekayla

Answer 1

You can call .unbind() without parameters to do this:

$('p').unbind();

From the docs:

In the simplest case, with no arguments, .unbind() removes all handlers attached to the elements.

Minatory

If 'p' has some child elements, will this statement unbind listeners on those too? – Luxor

Accroding to the document, from jQuery 3.0, .unbind() has been deprecated. It was superseded by the .off() method since jQuery 1.7, so its use was already discouraged. – Propertied

Answer 2

As of jQuery 1.7, off() and on() are the preferred methods to bind and unbind event handlers.

So to remove all handlers from an element, use this:

$('p').off();

or for specific handlers:

$('p').off('click hover');

And to add or bind event handlers, you can use

$('p').on('click hover', function(e){
    console.log('click or hover!');
});

Hypnotism

If you want to remove every binding from your page you can call $(document).add('*').off();. – Donegal

$(document).add('ID_OF_THE_ELEMENT').off(); helped me .. thanks @Donegal – Poltroonery

@Moitt Glad I could help. Please note, that in your case you could have used $('#ELEMENT_ID').off() directly instead. – Donegal

Yeah i forgot to mention '#' <-- hash sign .. MY BAD grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... thanks @Donegal – Poltroonery

@Moitt Yes, that too ;) But I was talking about the $(document).add(...) part. You don't need the document in your node list. If you simply want to remove all events on one particular element you know the ID of, then you can use $('#ELEMENT_ID').off() right away (nothing added in front of it). – Donegal

Answer 3

To remove all event bindings from all elements including document use :

$(document).off().find("*").off();

Mouton

Answer 4

@jammypeach is right about on & off being the accepted methods to use. Unbind sometimes ends up creating weird behaviors (e.g. not actually unbinding events correctly).

To unbind all elements within the body, find them all and for each one turn off the click handler (what was the old unbind):

$("body").find("*").each(function() {
    $(this).off("click");
});

Also see how to save the events that you've turned off in this stack overflow question.

Cacodemon