jquery temporary unbinding events

Question

maybe I\'m totally missing something about even handling in jQuery, but here\'s my problem.

Let\'s assume there are some event binding, like

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Answer 1

Good if the event is bound to multiple elements:

$('.foo').click(function() {
    if ( ! $(this).hasClass('flag')) {
        do something
    }
});

(add class 'flag' to sort of unbind, add it to 'bind')

Answer 2

Another way could be to use custom events, something along these lines:

var flag = 0;
$(element).bind("mousemove", function() {
    if(flag) {
        $(this).trigger("supermousemove");
    } else {
        $(this).trigger("magicmousemove");
    }
}).bind("supermousemove", function() {
    // do something super
}).bind("magicmousemove", function() {
    // do something magical
}); 

$("#foo").click(function() {
    flag = flag == 1 ? 0 : 1; // simple switch
});

Highly annoying demo here: http://jsfiddle.net/SkFvW/