Is it possible to remove all events attached to an element and its children
For jQuery 1.8 and later, use
$(element).find("*").addBack().off();addBack() adds the original list of elements from $(element) back to the internal collection of elements held by the jQuery object (those returned by find("*")). off() removes all attached event handlers, including those using delegation.
If you just want children and not all descendants, use
$(element).children().addBack().off();See the documentation:
For jQuery 1.7 and lower, use andSelf() instead of addBack(). For jQuery 1.6 and lower, use unbind() and die() instead of off(). For example:
$(element).children().andSelf().unbind().die();