Question

I disable a jQuery click event with:

$("#button").click( function () { return false;}

How can I enable it? The intention is avoid double clicks and run multiple times the function that triggers.
I want to restore the event when other button was pushed.

Answer 1

There’s a couple options, but I like the following best:

//disable
$("#button").bind('click', function() { return false; });

//enable
$("#button").unbind('click');

You could also bind click again on the button to some other callback function as well. Lastly, I might suggest calling preventDefault on the event from a click event, depending on what #button really is like so:

$("#button").bind('click', function(e) { 
    e.preventDefault();
    return false; 
});

As j08691 pointed out, as of jQuery 1.7 on, it should look like:

$("#button").on('click', function(e) { 
    e.preventDefault();
    return false; 
});