Preventing multiple clicks on button

Question

I have following jQuery code to prevent double clicking a button. It works fine. I am using Page_ClientValidate() to ensure that the double click is prevented o

Answer 1

JS provides an easy solution by using the event properties:

$('selector').click(function(event) {
  if(!event.detail || event.detail == 1){//activate on first click only to avoid hiding again on multiple clicks
    // code here. // It will execute only once on multiple clicks
  }
});