What's the cross-browser way to capture all single clicks on a button?

What's the best way to execute a function exactly once every time a button is clicked, regardless of click speed and browser?

Simply binding a "click" handler works perfectly in all browsers except IE.

In IE, when the user clicks to开发者_Python百科o fast, only "dblclick" fires, so the "click" handler is never executed. Other browsers trigger both events so it's not a problem for them.

The obvious solution/hack (to me at least) is to attach a dblclick handler in IE that triggers my click handler twice. Another idea is to track clicks myself with mousedown/mouseup, which seems pretty primitive and probably belongs in a framework rather than my application.

So, what's the best/usual/right way of handling this? (pure Javascript or jQuery preferred)

Depending on your situation you can use different approaches, but I would suggest using namespaced event handlers with jQuery like this:

function eventHandler(event) {
    // your handler code here
    doSomeMagic();
}

var element = $('#element');

element.one('click.someNameSpace', function(event){
    // first we unbind all other event handlers with this namespace
    element.unbind('.someNameSpace');

    // then we execute our eventHandler
    eventHandler();
}).one('dblclick.someNameSpace',  function(event){
    // If this fires first, we also unbind all event handlers
    element.unbind('.someNameSpace');

    // and then execute our eventHandler
    eventHandler();
});

I'm not sure this will work the way you want it, but it's a start, I guess.

Mousedown and mouseup works just like the click functions, unfortunately so much that when IE omits a click because of a doubleclick it will also omit the mousedown and mouseup. In any case, you can add both click and dblclick to the same object and feed the clicks through a function that sort out any click happening too close to the last.

<div onclick="clk()" ondblclick="clk()"></div>

lastclicktime=0
function clk(){
    var time=new Date().getTime()
    if(time>lastclicktime+50){
        lastclicktime=time
        //Handle click
    }
}

I by the way just found out that, at least in Firefox the dblclick event is not given an event time, therefore I had to resolve to the Date method.