How to distinguish between left and right mouse click with jQuery

Question

How do you obtain the clicked mouse button using jQuery?

$(\'div\').bind(\'click\', function(){
    alert(\'clicked\');
});

this is trigger

Answer 1

there is also a way, to do it without JQuery!

check out this:

document.addEventListener("mousedown", function(evt) {
    switch(evt.buttons) {
      case 1: // left mouse
      case 2: // right mouse
      case 3: // middle mouse <- I didn't tested that, I just got a touchpad
    }
});