My solution to that problem is based on the top answer which helped me find the right way.
So I find all the links and prevent their default behavior until the menu is opened and then disable them again when the menu is closed.
var menuButton = $('.js-side-menu-toggle');
var sideMenuLinks = $('#sidr').find('a');
var canClick = false;
sideMenuLinks.on('click', function(e) {
if (!canClick) {
e.preventDefault();
}
});
menuButton.sidr({
onOpen: function() {
canClick = true;
},
onClose: function() {
canClick = false;
}
});
The tricky part here is that we need to change the plugin itself so that this code can work.
The problem is that the functions onOpen()
and onClose()
are called after the animation is done but not in it's callback function. That makes the functions to be called with the animation which is async and here is our issue.
Wrong:
// Close menu
if($body.is('body')){
scrollTop = $html.scrollTop();
$html.removeAttr('style').scrollTop(scrollTop);
}
$body.addClass('sidr-animating').animate(bodyAnimation, speed).removeClass(bodyClass);
$menu.animate(menuAnimation, speed, function() {
$menu.removeAttr('style').hide();
$body.removeAttr('style');
$('html').removeAttr('style');
sidrMoving = false;
sidrOpened = false;
// Callback
if(typeof callback === 'function') {
callback(name);
}
$body.removeClass('sidr-animating');
});
// onClose callback
onClose();
We just need to insert the onClose function inside the animation callback function in order to lock the links when the menu is closed and we should do the same with the on open code fragment.
Right:
// Close menu
if($body.is('body')){
scrollTop = $html.scrollTop();
$html.removeAttr('style').scrollTop(scrollTop);
}
$body.addClass('sidr-animating').animate(bodyAnimation, speed).removeClass(bodyClass);
$menu.animate(menuAnimation, speed, function() {
$menu.removeAttr('style').hide();
$body.removeAttr('style');
$('html').removeAttr('style');
sidrMoving = false;
sidrOpened = false;
// Callback
if(typeof callback === 'function') {
callback(name);
}
$body.removeClass('sidr-animating');
// onClose callback
onClose();
});