Best way to remove an event handler in jQuery?

Question

I have an input type=\"image\". This acts like the cell notes in Microsoft Excel. If someone enters a number into the text box that this input-image

Answer 1

I know this comes in late, but why not use plain JS to remove the event?

var myElement = document.getElementById("your_ID");
myElement.onclick = null;

or, if you use a named function as an event handler:

function eh(event){...}
var myElement = document.getElementById("your_ID");
myElement.addEventListener("click",eh); // add event handler
myElement.removeEventListener("click",eh); //remove it