jQuery - Disable Click until all chained animations are complete

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The solution below is intended to slide down the groupDiv displaying div1 and enough space for

Answer 1

you can put this first thing inside the click event

    $(element).css({ "pointer-events":"none"}); 
    

, and this in the callback function of the animation

    $(element).css({ "pointer-events":"auto"});
    

Answer 2

You can easily disable your links while animation is running

$('a').click(function () {
    if ($(':animated').length) {
        return false;
    }
});

You can of course replace the $('a') selector to match only some of the links.

Answer 3

The issue is your first animating the div#GroupDiv so your initial check if (!$("#div2 .tab").is(':animated')) will be false until the groupDiv has finished animated and the callback is fired.

You could maybe try

if (!$("#div2 .tab").is(':animated') && !$("#GroupDiv").is(':animated')) 

however I doubt this will cover really quick clicking. The safest is to unbind the event using

$(this).unbind('toggle').unbind('click');

as the first line inside the if and you can then do away with the animated check. The downside to this is you will have to rebind using the callback you are passing through to your custom animation functions.

Answer 4

Animating something that can be clicked repeatedly is something to look out for because it is prone for errors. I take it that you Problem is that animations queue up and are executed even when you have stopped clicking. The way I solved it was to use the stop() function on an Element.

Syntax: jQuery(selector).stop(clearQueue,gotoEnd) //both parameters are boolean
More Info

When I click on a button, I first stop the animation and clear the Queue, then i proceed to define the new animation on it. gotoEnd can stay false (default value) but you can try tochange it to true if you want, you might like the result.

Usage Example: jQuery('button#clickMe').stop(true).animate({left:+=10}).

Answer 5

you can unbind... but this should work too:

if (!$("#div2 .tab").is(':animated') && !$("#GroupDiv").is(':animated')) return;

Answer 6

I have recently made an AJAX jQuery plugin, featuring plenty of animation. The workaround to the AJAX animation bug that I have found is as follows.

    $(options.linkSelector).click(function(e){
    if ($("#yourNav").hasClass("disabled")) {
      return false;
    } else {
      e.preventDefault();
      $("#yourNav").addClass("disabled")
      // Prepare DOM for new content
      $(content).attr('id', 'content-old');
      $('<div/>', {id: 'ajMultiLeft'}).css({'top': '100%'}).insertAfter('#content-old');

      // Load new content
      $(content).load(linkSrc+ ' ' +options.content+ ' > *', function() {

      // Remove old content

      $(content).animate({top: '100%'}, 1000, function(){
        $(content-old).remove(); 
        $("#yourNav").removeClass("disabled")
      });

      setBase();
    }

What this does is makes the click event for each link respond to nothing whilst the parent div has a class of disabled. The disabled class is set by the function upon initial click and removed via a callback on the final animation.