Learning jQuery - Fourth Edition

Removing an event handler

There are times when we will be done with an event handler we previously registered. Perhaps the state of the page has changed such that the action no longer makes sense. It is typically possible to handle this situation with conditional statements inside our event handlers, but it may be more elegant to unbind the handler entirely.

Suppose that we want our collapsible style switcher to remain expanded whenever the page is not using the normal style. While the Narrow Column or Large Print button is selected, clicking on the background of the style switcher should do nothing. We can accomplish this by calling the the .off() method to remove the collapsing handler when one of the non-default style switcher buttons is clicked: ...