Is there a way to temporarily disable an event listener?
In my case, I have a third party library (not jQuery centric) that creates mouseover/mouseout events on an element using addEventListener/attachEvent.
Under certain circumstances another event fires on a different element and I need to disable those event listeners. My solution thus far has been to simply unbind the mouseover/mouseout. This usually works fine because that event generally causes the page to refresh.
However, every now and again an error can occur (think validation error) that results in the page not refreshing, and I need to re-attach the mouseover/mouseout event listeners.
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It's probably worth mentioning that because the mouseover/mouseout event listeners are created and attached within a third party library I cannot simply assign the event to a variable and bind/unbind it in that manner (which AFIK is the best way to do this).
Update
I had originally asked
Is there a way in jQuery to get the event listeners already assigned to an object?
I have since found out it is impossible to access events assigned by addEventListener/attachEvent: Access events added with attachEvent() / addEventListener() in JavaScript
jQuery uses data to store events internally, so you can use it to get all of the event handlers for an object:
$("#foo").data("events")
You can then remove a specific handler by using unbind:
$("#foo").unbind('click', $("#foo").data("events").click[42]);