I was doing something similar recently. I'm not sure if this is the best/right way to do it, but I just added an "unbind" at the start of the function (before the click event handler is applied) to prevent bubling.
e.g. function foo(){ $('a').unbind( "click" ); $('a').click(function(){ $.get("test.html", function(data){ $('#divId').append(data); foo(); }); }); } On May 5, 4:13 am, summea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been asking about the same problem (and still searching (in > vain?) for an answer to the question here on the jQuery group...). > > I have a click function that I bind to each folder link in an > imaginary file manager script. The problem is still, when I click on > one folder and it displays its contents, the click function keeps > going and opens and closed the folder when it should STOP after being > clicked once. And it should attach its click function (in an > UNCLICKED state,) to the just-clicked folder's children folders... > > I've been reading up on events bubbling and stopping propagation, > returning false, etc. But nothing seems to be working. I've tried > adding a parameter even to the bindFolderAction function to check if > it's been clicked or not. But when I tried that, the children > folder's wouldn't have bindFolderAction binded to them, and that's > what I need to do as well. > > Here is the function I have so far, I've tried it another way since I > last posted... and still have had no suggestions... or replies on the > other post. Any help? > > bindFolderAction = function(){ > > $('.myTree').find('a').bind('click', function(evt){ > > evt.stopPropagation(); > evt.preventDefault(); > > alert('this is not stopping...'); > > var linkval = $(this).attr('href'); > > subbranch = $('ul', this.parentNode).eq(0); > $.log(subbranch.css('display')); > > $.log(this.firstChild); > > if (subbranch.css('display') == 'none') { > > //$.log('OPENED'); > subbranch.show(); > this.firstChild.src = '../img/open.gif'; > > $ > (this.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('ul')).load(linkval, function() > { > > bindFolderAction(); > return false; > }); > > } else { > > //$.log('CLOSED'); > subbranch.hide(); > > this.firstChild.src = '../img/closed.gif'; > > } > > return false; > }); > > }