Is binding a click event to document better than binding it to body?

Question

The question is simply between

$(\"body\").click(function(e){}); vs $(document).click(function(e){});

which is more efficient or advisa

Answer 1

If the page height is smaller than the viewport height, then clicking on the viewport below the page will not trigger the 'body' click handler, but only the document click handler.

Live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/simevidas/ZVgDC/

In the demo, try clicking on the area below the text, and you will see that only the document click handler executes.

Therefore, it is better to bind the handler to the Document object.