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

Try utilizing .one()

var button = $("#button"),
  result = $("#result"),
  buttonHandler = function buttonHandler(e) {
    result.html("processing...");
    $(this).fadeOut(1000, function() {
      // do stuff
      setTimeout(function() {
        // reset `click` event at `button`
        button.fadeIn({
          duration: 500,
          start: function() {
            result.html("done at " + $.now());
          }
        }).one("click", buttonHandler);

      }, 5000)
    })
  };

button.one("click", buttonHandler);

#button {
  width: 50px;
  height: 50px;
  background: olive;
}

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