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

This example work.

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HTML code:

  

     
Something
 
  

jQuery:

    var fade = function(){
        $(".mask").fadeToggle(500,function(){
            $(this).parent().on("click",function(){
                $(this).off("click");
                fade();
            });
        });
    };

    $(".wrapper").on("click",function(){
        $(this).off("click");
        fade();     
    });