jQuery check if target is link

Question

I have a global function to capture clicks.

$(document).click(function(e){
  //do something
  if(clickedOnLink)
    //do something
});

I want t

Answer 1

I believe using is will actually have better performance than the answers suggesting closest:

$(e.target).is('a, a *');

This checks if the element itself is an a or if it is contained with an a.

This should be faster than closest because it will use matches on the element itself and not need to traverse up the DOM tree as closest will do.