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Imad
Imad

Reputation: 7490

JQuery: Disable click event

I want to disable all click events on my page but some of events are still getting called, suppose I have html as below

<div id='parent'>
    <table>
        <tr>
            <td><input type = 'text'/></td>
            <td><select><option>A</option><option>B</option></select></td>
            <td><a href='#' onclick="alert('Called')">Click </a></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>dscsdcd</td>
            <td>dscsdcd</td>
            <td>dscdscdsc</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>sdcdsc</td>
            <td>dssdcdsc</td>
            <td><input type='submit' value='Button'/></td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</div>

And script as below

$('#parent').click( function(e)
{
     e.stopPropagation();
     e.preventDefault();
     e.stopImmediatePropagation();
     return false;
});

when I click anchor tag, it alerts Called which it shouldn't because I am disabling event for it's parent. Looks like anchor tag is overriding onclick, if it is then how to prevent it? if not, then what could be the solution?

JS Fiddle

Upvotes: 3

Views: 10723

Answers (5)

BenG
BenG

Reputation: 15164

try this plugin to temporary disable onclick AND jQuery click events:-

$.fn.disableClick = function (disable){
    this.each(function() {
        if(disable){
            if(this.onclick)
                $(this).data('onclick', this.onclick).removeAttr('onclick');
            if($._data(this, 'events') && $._data(this, 'events').click)
                $(this).data('click', $.extend(true, {}, $._data(this, 'events').click)).off('click');
        }
        else{
            if($(this).data('onclick'))
                this.onclick = $(this).data('onclick');
            if($(this).data('click'))
                for(var i in $(this).data('click'))
                    $(this).on('click', $(this).data('click')[i].handler);
        }
    });
    return this;
};


//disable clicks
$('#parent *').disableClick(true);

//enable clicks
$('#parent *').disableClick(false);

DEMO

Upvotes: 1

mahyard
mahyard

Reputation: 1248

There is an attribute you should use to make all things disabled.

var nodes = document.getElementById("parent").getElementsByTagName('*');
for(var i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) {
     nodes[i].disabled = true;
}

Unfortunately disable is not valid with anchor tags.

There you should use :

var nodes = document.getElementById("parent").getElementsByTagName('a');
for(var i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) {
  nodes[i].onclick = function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
    // YOUR CODES HERE
  }
}

try to combine these two methods according to your needs

Upvotes: 0

Ronen Cypis
Ronen Cypis

Reputation: 21470

Just remove the onclick attribute from elements that have it, and unbind the 'click' event using .off('click') method

$('#parent *[onclick]').removeAttr('onclick').off('click');

Upvotes: 5

hsz
hsz

Reputation: 152304

onclick attribute has a higher priority here. You can loop your <a> elements and unset this attribute:

$('#parent a').each(function () {
  $(this).attr('onclick', '');
}).click(function () {
  // ...
});

Upvotes: 1

nagiyevel
nagiyevel

Reputation: 424

If you want to disable it for any element under that div you must type:

$('#parent *').click( function(e)
{
     e.stopPropagation();
     e.preventDefault();
     e.stopImmediatePropagation();
     return false;
});

Upvotes: 0

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