Raphael canvas (background) onclick event

Question

I have been working with Raphael to create drag and drop shapes on a canvas. I do this using the .drag() function (supplied in the Raphael framework) along with my

Answer 1

I would just attach the regular click event (with vanilla javascript, or whatever js framework you are using) to the the canvas node (or the parent node that contains the #canvas element).

With jquery:

//Bound to canvas
$('#canvas').bind('dblclick', myDblClick);
//Bound to parent
$('#canvas').parent().bind('dblclick', myDblClick);

Otherwise, if you are dead-set on using Raphael events, you could draw a rectangle over the entire canvas, and capture click events on that. but that seems like a lot of overhead.