jQuery animation: Ignore double click

Question

I have a simple jQuery animation that moves a div to the right or left, upon a .click() event.

However, if the user clicks the event twice, it fires twice, which mes

Answer 1

I normally get around this by setting a global variable and run an if like

 clicked = true;
 $(div).click(function(){
   if (!clicked){
       clicked = true;
       Your function with a callback setting clicked to false
   }
   ....
 })