Question

I have a plugin like

$.fn.mycoolplugin

which binds mousemove to the document like

$(document).("mousemove", function() {
    //bunch of stuff
});

after you call the function on a selector

$('.myclass').mycoolplugin();

How would I unbind this because the mousemove is bound to the document and OTHER stuff in my code uses mouseenter and mouseleave ?

Answer 1

You can unbind any handler by calling .unbind:

$(document).unbind("mousemove");

This will unbind all mousemove handlers from document. Do note that doing this might break the plugin’s functionality (with the risk of breaking any other code/plugin that adds mousemove handler to document).