$('html').click()… anywhere except one element

Question

I have a dynamically appended menu which I am removing if you click anywhere on page including the menu links itself. What I am trying to achieve is to prevent the remove if yo

Answer 1

You can also detect clicks on the whole document and check if the current element clicked is your menu element

$(document).click(function(event){
    if(event.target !== $('.menu')[0]) {
        // hide the menu...
    }
});​