jQuery: prevent click queue

$("#right").live("click", function(event) {
    $(".image_scroll").animate({"left": "+=300px"}, "slow");
});开发者_开发百科

I need the click to basically not register until the animation is done. I've tried using return false but that just seems to kill the link entirely.

Tried also using $(".image_scroll").stop().animate({"left": "+=300px"}, "slow"); but that just makes the animation stutter and look glitchy.

Edit: The id #right is on an image, not an a tag. The HTML is as follows:

<img src="/images/right.png" id="right" alt="" />
<div id="container">
    <div id="image_scroll">
        <img src="1.jpg" />
        <img src="3.jpg" />
        <img src="4.jpg" />
    </div><!-- /#image_scroll -->
</div> <!-- /#container

You need to provide a callback to animate...

$("#right").live("click", function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    var src = $(this).attr('href');
    $(".image_scroll").animate({"left": "+=300px"}, "slow", function() { window.location.href = src; });
});

You'll need to store the whether the animation is running or not, you could use the jQuery.data function for that:

$("#right").live("click", function(event) {
    var el = $(this),
        state = el.data('animation_state');
    if(state == 'busy') {
       //ignore clicks while the animation is running
       return false;
    } 
    el.data('animation_state', 'busy');
    $(".image_scroll").animate({"left": "+=300px"}, "slow", function() {
       //finished animating      
       //set the state to finished so we can click the element the next time
      el.data('animation_state', 'complete'); 
    }); 
});

var handler = function(event) {
    $("#right").die("click");
    $(".image_scroll").animate({"left": "+=300px"}, "slow", function(){
        $("#right").live("click", handler);
    });
};
$("#right").live("click", handler);

Check if the animation is running and, if so,

$("#right").live("click", function(event) {

    if ( $(".image_scroll").is(":animated") ) {
      return false;
    }

    $(".image_scroll").animate({"left": "+=300px"}, "slow");
});