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

Just check if element is already animating:

$('a#right').click( function () {
    if ($(this).is(':visible') && !$('#slide').is(':animated')) {
        $('#slide').animate({right: '+=257'}, 400, function () {
            slide_button();
        });
    }
});