jQuery bind click *ANYTHING* but *ELEMENT*

Question

Say there are some elements floating around, and I\'m trying to do some when I click ANYTHING(divs, body, whatever...) but the one specified (e.g. div#special).

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Answer 1

you need to do different binds, there is no need to process all this clicks in one function

$('body').bind('click', function(e){
  bodyClickEvent();
});
$('div.floating').bind('click',function(e){
  elementClickEvent(this);
  e.stopPropagation(); //prevents bodyClickEvent
});
  $('div#special').bind('click', function(){
  e.stopPropagation(); //prevents bodyClickEvent
});