Is is possible to treat double clicks as single clicks in Javascript?

Question

Hi

I'm learning Javascript. I noticed that if I click on an object multiple times, quickly, some clicks are captured as double clicks. Is it possible to capture all clicks in Javascript as single clicks only?

Thanks

Answer 1

Using jQuery, you could create a double click event handler on the document and then prevent that default behavior:

$(document).dblclick(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    alert('Handler for .dblclick() called and ignored.');
});

Double click in the example to see the result.