title: jQuery prevent other events after a click
body: <p>I am trying to prevent multiple clicks on links and items, which is causing problems.</p>
  
  <p>I am using jQuery to bind click events to buttons (jQuery UI) and image links (<code>&lt;a&gt;&lt;img /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</code>).</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to do-once-for-all prevent other events from firing after a click occurs?</p>
  
  <p>Or do I have to maintain a global variable called _isProcessing and set it to true for each event handler? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>
  
  <p>Edit: (clarification)
  Thanks for your answers, my problem isn't preventing the bubbling of the event, but preventing multiple concurrent clicks.</p>