How to make onclick function execute only once?

Question

I have this code for Google analytics on a button. I need it to be executed only once, so that the user can't change statistics by pressing the button many times. I tried solutions from similar topics, but they don't work. Please help. This is my code.

<script>
    function klikaj(i) {
        gtag('event', 'first-4', {
            'event_category' : 'cat-4',
            'event_label' : 'site'
        });
    }

    document.body.addEventListener("click", klikaj(i), {once:true})
</script>


<div id="thumb0" class="thumbs" onclick="klikaj('rad1')">My button</div>

Answer 1

Remove onclick attribute on your button and register listener via JavaScript, as you tried to do:

<div id="thumb0" class="thumbs"
  style="border: 1px solid; cursor: pointer; float: left">
    My button
</div>
<script>
    function klikaj(i) {
        console.log(i);
    }
    document.getElementById('thumb0')
        .addEventListener("click", function(event) {
            klikaj('rad1');
        }, {once: true});
</script>

If your browser doesn't support { once: true } option, you can remove event listener manually:

<div id="thumb0" class="thumbs"
  style="border: 1px solid;cursor: pointer;float:left">
    My button
</div>

<script>
    function klikaj(i) {
        console.log(i);
    }
    function onClick(event) {
      klikaj('rad1');
      document
        .getElementById('thumb0')
        .removeEventListener("click", onClick);
    }
    
    document
      .getElementById('thumb0')
      .addEventListener("click", onClick);
</script>

Answer 2

you could use removeAttribute() like this: document.getElementById('thumb0').removeAttribute("onclick");

or you could let the function return false like this: document.getElementById('thumb0').onclick = ()=> false

Answer 3

I would recommend setting a variable and checking its value.

<script>
    var clicked = false;
    function klikaj(i) {
        if (clicked === false) {
            gtag('event', 'first-4', {
                'event_category' : 'cat-4',
                'event_label' : 'site'
            });
        }
        clicked = true;
    }
    ...
</script>

Or removing the onclick event as suggested by others,

<script>
    function klikaj(i) {
        gtag('event', 'first-4', {
            'event_category' : 'cat-4',
            'event_label' : 'site'
        });
        document.getElementById('thumb0).onclick = undefined;
    }
    ...
</script>

Note that once: true is unfortunately not supported in IE and Edge. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventTarget/addEventListener