jQuery, stopping clicking during animations - animation

Question

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I am currently having much trouble with a jQuery animation. Basically, a button click will quickly start a short animation and collapse a sidebar, widening the main content box to full width (and back again if wanted). The issue is that with quick consecutive clicks, the layout goes all crazy. I have tried this condition:
if (!$(this).is(":animated"))
{
// Code
}
But it doesn't work. So I have tried .off(), and it shuts off, but I cannot find out how to turn it back .on(). Can someone help me please? Here is what I have:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
var $button = $("a#toggle");
var $content = $("div#index_main-content");
var $sidebar = $("div#sidebar");
// Disable quicky clicky
$button.click(function() {
$button.off().delay(1000).on();
});
// Hide sidebar
$button.toggle(function sidebarToggle() {
$sidebar.fadeOut(500, function() {
$content.animate({width: '100%'}, 500, function() {
$button.attr("title", "Click to show the sidebar!").addClass("hiding").removeClass("showing");
});
});
},
// Show sidebar
function sidebarToggle() {
$content.animate({width: '69.5%'}, 500, function() {
$sidebar.fadeIn(500, function() {
$button.attr("title", "Click to hide the sidebar!").addClass("showing").removeClass("hiding");
});
});
});
});
</script>
<div id="index_content">
<a title="Click to hide the sidebar" class="showing" id="toggle"></a>
<div id="sidebar">
<!-- Sidebar: float-right/width-28.5% -->
</div>
<div id="index_main-content">
<!-- Content: float-left/width-69.5% -->
</div>
</div>
Also, there is a live demo here. Like I said before, for some reason, the .on() does not happen. :(
Thank you. :)

Answer 1

$content.stop(true,true).animate({ //code });

Answer 2

Try using stop before issuing the animation the second time, for example:
$content.stop().animate(
This will stop and previous animations before starting the new one.
Also use true in the stop statement to cancel other animation and complete the animations.
$content.stop(true,true).animate(
See:
http://api.jquery.com/stop/

Answer 3

stop() to stop the current animation,
clear the animation queue and go to the end of the animation .stop(true,true)
or
turn the button to OFF before you start the animation
turn the button to ON within the animation callback function, so that
is turned on again after the animation finished
OR more easy
<div id="index_content">
<a title="Click to hide the sidebar" class="showing" id="toggle">Click me</a>
<div id="sidebar">sidebar
<!-- Sidebar: float-right/width-28.5% -->
</div>
<div id="index_main-content">content
<!-- Content: float-left/width-69.5% -->
</div>
</div>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#toggle').click(function(){
$('#sidebar:visible').fadeOut('slow')
$('#sidebar:hidden').fadeIn('slow')
})
})
take a look#
http://jsfiddle.net/jdFrR/