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jQuery.unbind()

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Binding Problems

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Typically in jQuery when you bind an HTML element with some event this event is fired every time the user (client) triggers it. Thus when you’ve a click event attached on a button you can click it as many times as you want. In some rare cases this can be tricky. Let’s imagine the following scenario.

  1. The user clicks on a “vote” button.
  2. Some AJAX calls are performed.
  3. After a successful AJAX call you setup a cookie to deny further votes from this machine.

This seems to be pretty well known scenario, but as the click event is attached to the button there is enough time to click several times on the “vote” button and to vote several times. In this case before the cookie is set the user can vote more than once. Continue reading jQuery.unbind() →

Remove DOM Element with JQuery

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JQuery and DOM

JQuery is one of the most famous JavaScript library online. There are so much articles in the web about it, that I feel useless to describe it again. The good parts of that library is the amazing way it handles the DOM. It is so good at that that I usually use it with other JavaScript libraries.

Now I’m working on a task and one of the main target of the completed task was the RAM usage of the code. It just has about 100 dynamic DOM elements which on every event should be removed form the tree and the RAM should be freed. Continue reading Remove DOM Element with JQuery →