Unbinding fastclick

[rstacruz]

Is the an easy way to temporarily unbind fastclick?

I'd love to be able to do this for a few scenarios:

• Google's places autocomplete doesn't play well with Fastclick, and needsclick isn't a solution that works. I'd like to temporarily disable Fastclick altogether while a Google autocomplete widget is around.
• I may be using Rails's Turbolinks, and would like fastclick to run only on certain pages. This means it'd have to be unbound once these pages are navigated away from.

[rstacruz]

#119 is a relevant discussion, by the way — that solution will work for both these use cases.

[matthew-andrews]

You should be able to run .destroy().

So...

var fc = FastClick.attach(document.body);

// Some time later
fc.destroy();

// Re-init
fc = FastClick.attach(document.body);

Alternatively you could use Selective FastClick to more precisely target those elements that are FastClick-safe.

[rstacruz]

Thanks! I wasn't able to find .destroy() in the docs. Perhaps it should be documented somewhere?

[aghouseh]

The destroy method is part of the FastClick prototype, so you'll need to save a reference to the FastClick instance and call destroy() on that object.

var fastclick = FastClick.attach(document.body);
...
fastclick.destroy();

I was able to resolve the google maps autocomplete conflict perfectly by using this method.