How to overwrite jquery event handlers

Question

I\'ll try to explain the problem with a simple code.

var fireClick = function() { alert(\'Wuala!!!\') };

$(\'#clickme\').click(fireclick);
$(\'#clickme\').c         


        

Answer 1

You may use the jQuery function unbind to remove the first event:

var fireClick = function() { alert('Wuala!!!') };

$('#clickme').click(fireclick);
$('#clickme').unbind('click', fireClick); // fireClick won't fire anymore...
$('#clickme').click(fireclick); // ...but now it will