Check if mousedown with an if statement?

Question

Is it possible to do something like this:

if ($(this).mousedown() == true) {

I thought that would work but it doesn\'t.

Additio

Answer 1

Check out this one. http://jsfiddle.net/b1Lzo60n/

Mousedown starts a timer that checks if mouse is still down after 1 second.

Press me

Code:

var mousedown = false;
var mousedown_timer = '';
$('#button').mousedown(function(e) {
    mousedown = true;
    $('#log').text('mousedown...');
    mousedown_timer = setTimeout(function () {
        if(mousedown) {
            $('#log').text('1 second');
        }
    }, 1000);
}).mouseup(function(e) {
    mousedown = false;
    clearTimeout(mousedown_timer);
    $('#log').text('aborted');
});