How to temporarily disable a click handler in jQuery?

Question

Say I have something like the following to trap the click event of a button:

$(\"#button_id\").click(function() {
  //disable click event
  //do something
           


        

Answer 1

$("#button_id").click(function() {
  if($(this).data('dont')==1) return;
  $(this).data('dont',1);
  //do something
  $(this).data('dont',0);
}

Remeber that $.data() would work only for items with ID.