Question

I already have a lot of AJAX code written for a web app and didn’t take into account the problems that double clicks on some things can cause. I already implemented an “inprogress” variable for sensitive AJAX calls so that it won’t be messed up by double clicking by the user but I am wondering if there is a simple way to just disable all double clicks anywhere (in any element) within the entire body of the web page rather than having to do it individually for each specific element.

Thanks for any advice

Answer 1

Try something crazy like this:

$("*").dblclick(function (event)
{
    event.preventDefault();
});

In theory, it would capture the double-click event on any element and then basically do nothing (cancels the default action).