hasEventListener plugin for jQuery 1.2.3 to 1.6.4
hasEventListener is a (about 2.2kB minified and 1kB gzipped) jQuery plugin which checks if an Object or a DOM element actually has a particular/live/delegated event listener bound to it. More infos ?
As a bonus, hasEventListener also exposes two new jQuery methods called getEventsData whose can be used as a 1.2.3 to 1.6.4 compatible way to get events data internally stored on an element by jQuery (please, see related examples and API/documentation below).
Why ?
jQuery allows us to bind event handlers on Objects and DOM elements but doesn't provide any way to easily check if they already have one, so I first started searching over the Internet for an existing solution and saw that some people (for example here, here or even there) asked for it too.
Some people do something like $("#some_element").unbind("click").bind("click", function () {}); which works but is unclean and calls the unbind method even when not needed. I couldn't rely on that. I also found out a few existing plugins but wasn't satisfied with any of them because they lacked some important features or backward compatibility.
That's why I decided to write my own and how hasEventListener was born ...
Feedback wanted !
If you like hasEventListener, use it on a daily basis, found some bug(s), have some feature request(s), please tell me !
Contact me via Twitter or use Github's dedicated contact/report forms.
You are a developer and can improve hasEventListener by yourself ?
Go ahead, it could save me a lof of time ! Feel free to fork it, send me your work or a pull request on Github or whatever ...
A quick demo that you even can play with is available here on jsFiddle.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<title>Page title</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Some HTML tags -->
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script scr="jquery.hasEventListener-2.1.0.min.js"></script>
<!-- Some other jQuery plugins and/or scripts, order matters ! -->
</body>
</html>
tested: (DOM Element or plain Object) where to check event presence for.
mode: (String, "/!(delegat|liv)e/") if the event was bound using one of these jQuery methods.
type: (String, "/[a-z_]+/") type of the event to test presence for. e.g. "click"
namespace: (String, "/\.[^\s]+/") namespace of the event to test presence for. e.g. ".namespace".
handler: (Function) event handler to test presence for.
element: (DOM Element/Window or plain Object) where to get the events data.
key: (String) type of the event data to get.
jQuery.hasEventListener(tested, [mode][type][namespace], [handler])--> Boolean.:hasEventListener[([mode][type][namespace])] Selector--> jQuery object..hasEventListener([mode][type][namespace], [handler])--> jQuery object.jQuery.getEventsData(element, [key])--> Object orundefined..getEventsData([key])--> Object orundefined.
Important notes :
- jQuery has support for live events since 1.3.0 and for delegated ones since 1.4.2.
handlerused withmodecurrently only works with jQuery 1.4.2+ (see this Fiddle).testedcan't be a jQuery object (see examples below).
$.hasEventListener($("#tabs li")[0], "!delegate click.tab_widget");returnstrueorfalse.$("#tabs li:hasEventListener(!delegate click.tab_widget)");returns a jQuery object.$("#tabs li").hasEventListener("!delegate click.tab_widget");returns a jQuery object.$.hasEventListener($("span")[0], "!live");returnstrueorfalse.$("span:hasEventListener(.my_namespace)");returns a jQuery object.$("span").hasEventListener("!live .my_namespace");returns a jQuery object.$.hasEventListener($({}).bind("custom_event", function () {})[0], "custom_event");returnstrue.$({}).bind("custom", function () {}).hasEventListener("custom");returns a jQuery object.$.getEventsData(window, "scroll");returns an object orundefined.$("*").getEventsData();returns an object orundefined.
- 2.0.4 : Fix #3 (IE compat. issue)
- 2.0.3 : Checking on plain objects and delegated events bugs corrected.
- 2.0.2 : Custom events checking bug corrected.
- 2.0.1 : Major Internet Explorer compatibility changes.
- 2.0.0 : Complete rewrite, new API, please forget about anterior versions.
- API changes :
!modewill bemode!,toggleandhovershortcuts will be added. - Add jQuery 1.7+ support
- jQuery hasEventListener and developer collaboration.
- jQuery fancy select dropdown menu.
- RPC Browser XBMC.
Copyright (c) 2012 Sebastien P.
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