This is a good question, and I actually don't think it can be done easily. (Some discussion on this)

If it is super duper important for you to have this functionality, you could hack it like so:

function singleClick(e) {

    // do something, this will be the DOM element

}



function doubleClick(e) {

    // do something, this will be the DOM element

}



$(selector).click(function(e) {

    var that = this;

    setTimeout(function() {

        var dblclick = parseInt($(that).data('double'), 10);

        if (dblclick > 0) {

            $(that).data('double', dblclick-1);

        } else {

            singleClick.call(that, e);

        }

    }, 300);

}).dblclick(function(e) {

    $(this).data('double', 2);

    doubleClick.call(this, e);

});

And here is an example of it at work.

As pointed out in the comments, there is a plugin for this that does what I did above pretty much, but packages it up for you so you don't have to see the ugly: FixClick.