jQuery click events firing multiple times

Question

I\'m attempting to write a video poker game in Javascript as a way of getting the basics of it down, and I\'ve run into a problem where the jQuery click event handlers are f

Answer 1

All the stuff about .on() and .one() is great, and jquery is great.

But sometimes, you want it to be a little more obvious that the user isn't allowed to click, and in those cases you could do something like this:

function funName(){
    $("#orderButton").prop("disabled", true);
    //  do a bunch of stuff
    // and now that you're all done
    setTimeout(function(){
        $("#orderButton").prop("disabled",false);
        $("#orderButton").blur();
    }, 3000);
}

and your button would look like:

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