How to do “If Clicked Else ..”

Question

I am trying to use jQuery to do something like

if(jQuery(\'#id\').click) {
    //do-some-stuff
} else {
    //run function2
}

But I\'m unsure h

Answer 1

if you press x, x amount of times you will get the division of the checkbox by y which results into a jquery boxcheck which would be an invalid way to do this kind of thing. I hope you will have a look at this before using the .on() functions

Answer 2

A click is an event; you can't query an element and ask it whether it's being clicked on or not. How about this:

jQuery('#id').click(function () {
   // do some stuff
});

Then if you really wanted to, you could just have a loop that executes every few seconds with your // run function..

Answer 3

Maybe you're looking for something like this:

$(document).click(function(e)
   {
       if($(e.srcElement).attr('id')=='id')
       {
           alert('click on #id');
       }
       else
       {
            alert('click on something else'); 
       }
   });

jsfiddle

You may retrieve a pointer to the clicked element using event.srcElement .

So all you have to do is to check the id-attribute of the clicked element.

Answer 4

 var flag = 0;

 $('#target').click(function() {
    flag = 1;
 });

 if (flag == 1)
 {
  alert("Clicked");
 }
 else
 {
   alert("Not clicked");
 }

Answer 5

You should avoid using global vars, and prefer using .data()

So, you'd do:

jQuery('#id').click(function(){
  $(this).data('clicked', true);
});

Then, to check if it was clicked and perform an action:

if(jQuery('#id').data('clicked')) {
    //clicked element, do-some-stuff
} else {
    //run function2
}

Hope this helps. Cheers

Answer 6

The way to do it would be with a boolean at a higher scope:

var hasBeenClicked = false;
jQuery('#id').click(function () {
    hasBeenClicked = true;
});

if (hasBeenClicked) {
    // The link has been clicked.
} else {
    // The link has not been clicked.
}