jquery: unbind a loaded function

Question

Hi,

I have a function which will resize the image background when the page is loaded,

$(document).ready(function(){
loadBackground();
});

and I want to 'unload' or 'remove' this loaded function when I click on a button so that I can load this function anew instead of loading it on top of the page,

$('.get-image').click(function(){
        $(window).unbind("resize",loadBackground);
        loadBackground();
 return false;
 });

but I can't make it work! any ideas please?

thanks, Lau

Answer 1

Based on your comments, I don't think you need to unbind at all:

You first want to load the background when the page is loaded, and then you want to load the background when a click happens.

What happens to the background when the image is resized should be another separate function that is bound to $(window).resize()... so the whole thing will look like this:

( $(function() { ... }); means the same as $(document).ready(function() { ... }) it's just faster to write:

$(function() { 
      // Define load BG
    function loadBackground() {
        /// ...
    }

      // Define what happens to the BG image on resize
      // this doesn't have to change. It should refer
      // to the generic `background-image`
    $(window).resize(function() { 
        // ...
    });

      // load BG when page is ready:
    loadBackground();

      // load another BG if there's a click:
      // This will effectively cancel the previous load bg
    $('.get-image').click(function() { 
        loadBackground();
        return false;
    });    
});

// I'm assuming you're somehow changing which BG image is loaded
// something like loadBackground(image)... and you could initially 
// load a default image, and then, if there's a click, you could
// determine what image should be based on what was clicked.