How to prevent calling of en event handler twice on fast clicks?

Question

There is a button and when user clicks on button, some data is saved to back-end. Issue is when user clicks on button very quickly, event handler is getting executed multipl

Answer 1

Try the following code

var x = 1;
var fewSeconds=10; /*10 seconds*/

$('#button').click(function() {
$('#button').attr("disabled", "disabled");
  x++;
  console.log(x);
    var btn = $(this);
    btn.prop('disabled', true);
    setTimeout(function(){
        btn.prop('disabled', false);
    }, fewSeconds*1000);

});