jQuery: Clicking anywhere but on a particular A tag

[cancer10]

Hi

I have a question in jQuery.

I have a webpage with lots of links, buttons, text etc. The page also has an <A class="mylink" HREF="#">Click here</a> tag.

What exactly I want is, if I click anywhere on the page, button, text or any other <A></A> tag on that page except the A tag that has the class="mylink", an alert() should popup.

I tried the following but I still see the alert when I click on the <A class="mylink" HREF="#">Click here</a> tag.

<script>

$(document).ready(function(){

   $(document).click(function(){
        alert(123);
  });


});

</script>

Any neat solution for this?


Thanks in advance.

[venegal]

Just check the event's target:

PHP Code:

$(function () {
    $(document).click(function (e) {
        if ( ! $(e.target).hasClass('mylink')) {
            alert(123);
        }
    });
}); 


[cancer10]

Hello

This seems to be working fine and is also efficient.

Many thanks for your help.