How to make a jquery click event fire only on first click

I have two divs (.basic1 and .basic2). I want .basic1 to fadeout on click, and .basic2 to fade in which I have working wonderfully. The only problem is that once .basic2 fades in, if the user continues to click the link (.navbar1), it will fade in this div over and over. I know that I need to use the .bind() function, but I can't seem to figure out where in my code to put it. Thanks!

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('.navbar1').click(function(e){
        e.preventDefault();

        $('.basic2').hide().load('.basic2', function() {
            $(this).delay(600).fadeIn(1000);
            $('.basic1').fadeOut(1000);
        });
    });
});

Solution 1:

Use .one():

$('.navbar1').one('click', function(e) {

It unbinds the click event once you trigger it.

If you don't want an element to be double-clicked, something like this should work:

$(document).on('click', '.navbar1:not(.clicked)', function() {
    // ...
});

To make .navbar1 unclickable, just run $('.navbar1').addClass('clicked'). To make it clickable, do the opposite.

Solution 2:

Please see jQuery one() for one-time event handlers. i.e.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('.navbar1').one('click', function(e){
        e.preventDefault();

        $('.basic2').hide().load('.basic2', function() {
            $(this).delay(600).fadeIn(1000);
            $('.basic1').fadeOut(1000);
        });
    });
});