jQuery $(“.class”).click(); - multiple elements, click event once

Question

I have multiple classes on a page of the same name. I then have a .click() event in my JS. What I want to happen is the click event only happen once, regardless of multiple

Answer 1

I tried it myself in my project.

All my rows in a table have a class "contact":

My code looks like this:

var contactManager = {};

contactManager.showEditTools = function(row) {
  console.debug(row);
}

$('.contact').click(function(event){
  console.log("this should appear just once!");
  alert("I hope this will appear just once!");
  contactManager.showEditTools(event);
});

And I was first scared to see my whole rows as a result in the Firebug console when I executed the code:

But then I realized that the click event was not fired, because no alert-dialog appeared. Firebug shows you just the elements which are affected by the click overiding. So there is nothing to worry.