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

I once solved this a little easier than the other answers, whithout taking care that click really goes down the DOM-Tree

just check if your element is hovered ;)

$(document).on('click', function (e) {

  if($('#special:hover').length > 0){
    // on our special element
  }else{
    // not on our special element
  }

});

Cheers