How to suppress jQuery event handling temporarily?

jQuery Web Development Front End Technology

To suppress jQuery event handling temporarily, add a class to your element so that you can prevent further code from execution.

Example

You can try to run the following code to learn how to suppress jQuery event handling −

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
    $(element).click(function(e) {
        e.preventDefault();

        // Check for fired class
        if ($(this).hasClass('fired') == false) {
          // Add fired class
          $(element).addClass('fired');

          // Remove fired class
          $(element).removeClass('fired');  
        }
   });
});
</script>
<style>
.fired {
    font-size: 25px;
    color: green;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p class="fired">This is a paragraph.</p>
<p class="fired">This is second paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>

Alex Onsman

Published on 20-Dec-2017 08:32:52

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