Click event - get the target where the mousedown started instead of the mouseup

You could use mousedown together with a mouseup function, and have them both saving their targets to a global variable, then compare them in an if statement.

let downTarget, upTarget;

$(document).mousedown(function(e) {
    downTarget = e.target;
});

$(document).mouseup(function(e) {
    upTarget = e.target;
});

if(upTarget === downTarget){ 
    *do stuff*
};