How to bind, unbind and rebind (click) events in JQuery

Question

After asking the same question 2 weeks ago here, I finally found "the" solution. This is why I am answering my own question. ;)

HOW TO BIND, UNBIND AND REBIND EVENTS IN JQUERY?

Universalism

Possible duplicate of jquery rebind() disable events for a specific time, then rebind them – Muddy

Answer 1

And THIS is the perfect solution. (At least for me.)

$(document).on('click', 'a#button', function(){
    $(this).after('<span> hello</span>');
    $('span').fadeOut(1000);
});

$('a#toggle').toggle(
    function(){
        $(this).text('rebind');
        $('a#button').on('click.disabled', false);
    },
    function(){
        $(this).text('unbind');
        $('a#button').off('click.disabled');
    }
);

".on()" does it. NOTE: It is important to bind the event like you can see on line one! It does not work with .click() or …!

See the docs!

Here is a fiddle to try it and experiment with it!

Enjoy!

Universalism

Why did you repost it if you already answered it on your original question? – Thalassa

I guess because the other solution is also nice and useful! (Updated the old post) – Universalism

Great answer! This certainly helped me temporarily disable a button's click event. And, for additional emphasis, the context of the click event should be how it is shown in the above answer! – Carolynncarolynne

Question: why does this work? Are we enabling/disabling a 'disabled' property on the native click event? – Carolynncarolynne

Important! For anyone looking into this, the .toggle() method was deprecated in jQuery 1.8 and removed in jQuery 1.9. (Source - jQuery.com) – Fled

Answer 2

A simpler and short solution is to add a class to the object if you want to unbind it then remove this class to rebind ex;

$('#button').click( function(){
   if($(this).hasClass('unbinded')) return;
   //Do somthing
 });

$('#toggle').click(function(){
    $('#button').toggleClass('unbinded');
 });

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