Disable Mouse Events

[SJ]

Dear Friends,

I want to temporaraly disable events from my page. However, I cant seem
to get it to work. It will show my disables message, but then it goes
ahead and does the action I was trying to do (like clicking on a link).

Here is the code, any ideas?
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function disableEvents()
{
document.onclick = showDisabledMessage;
}
function enableEvents()
{
document.onclick = null;
}
function showDisabledMessage()
{
alert("Please wait for the current action to complete.");
return false;
}

 

[RobG]

Dear Friends,

I want to temporaraly disable events from my page. However, I cant seem
to get it to work. It will show my disables message, but then it goes
ahead and does the action I was trying to do (like clicking on a link).

Learn about javascript events, in paticular event order and bubbling.

<URL: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/introevents.html >


Your code only adds/removes a handler for the document object's click
event, it doesn't affect the triggering of any other DOM object's
event, or other events for the document object.

 

[SJ]

This is perfect. Thanks a bunch!

Learn about javascript events, in paticular event order and bubbling.

<URL: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/introevents.html >


Your code only adds/removes a handler for the document object's click
event, it doesn't affect the triggering of any other DOM object's
event, or other events for the document object.