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

In my case I was using 'delegate', so none of these solutions worked. I believe it was the button appearing multiple times via ajax calls that was causing the multiple click issue. The solutions was using a timeout so only the last click is recognized:

var t;
$('body').delegate( '.mybutton', 'click', function(){
    // clear the timeout
    clearTimeout(t);
    // Delay the actionable script by 500ms
    t = setTimeout( function(){
        // do something here
    },500)
})