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Asked: 2026-06-17T09:19:50+00:00

How do you temporarily disable all events in javascript? We want to make them

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How do you temporarily disable all events in javascript? We want to make them disabled, so that some events don’t run until after 700 miliseconds after we click something.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you’re trying to temporarily disable all clicks, then a simple way to do that without changing any of the rest of your page or code is to put up a transparent div absolutely positioned over the whole page that intercepts and stops propagation of all click events. Then, use a setTimeout() to remove that transparent div at whatever time interval you want.

    Put the blockDiv in your page HTML so it’s already there.

    In your HMTL:

    <body>
    <div id="blockDiv"></div>
    ... other page HTML here
</body>

    Then, have this CSS in the page:

    #blockDiv {
    position: absolute;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
    z-index: 999;
}

    And, this javacript:

    $("#blockDiv").click(function(e) {
    // stop propagation and prevent default by returning false
    return false;
});

setTimeout(function() {
    $("#blockDiv").remove();
}, 700);
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