Prevent click event from firing when dblclick event fires

Question

I\'m handling both the click and dblclick event on a DOM element. Each one carries out a different command, but I find that when double clicking on the element, in addition

Answer 1

You can use UIEvent.detail if you want to detect how many times the element was clicked and fire events based on that.

A simple example:

element.addEventListener("click", function (e) {
  if (e.detail === 1) {
    // do something if the element was clicked once.
  } else if (e.detail === 2) {
    // do something else if the element was clicked twice
  }
});