Using jQuery with multiple events as variable

[Shikkediel]

Anything that could be incorrect or a pitfall with doing that (see title)? I can’t find anything on it on the web but it seems to work and could optimise the code nicely when there’s a lot of events being handled.

For example :

var press = 'mousedown touchstart',
release = 'mouseup touchend';

$('#someDiv').on(press, function() {

    // do stuff

    $(this).off(release).on(release, function() {

    // other stuff

    });
});

A penny for your thoughts…

[Shikkediel]

Okay, thanks. That’s pretty neat – I’ll be using it then whenever it might be useful (why didn’t I think of it before).

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