jQuery trigger event when click outside the element

if you have child elements like dropdown menus

$('html').click(function(e) {
  //if clicked element is not your element and parents aren't your div
  if (e.target.id != 'your-div-id' && $(e.target).parents('#your-div-id').length == 0) {
    //do stuff
  }
});

try these..

$(document).click(function(evt) {
    var target = evt.target.className;
    var inside = $(".menuWraper");
    //alert($(target).html());
    if ($.trim(target) != '') {
        if ($("." + target) != inside) {
            alert("bleep");
        }
    }
});

The most common application here is closing on clicking the document but not when it came from within that element, for this you want to stop the bubbling, like this:

$(".menuWrapper").click(function(e) {
  e.stopPropagation(); //stops click event from reaching document
});
$(document).click(function() {
  $(".menuWrapper").hide(); //click came from somewhere else
});

All were doing here is preventing the click from bubbling up (via event.stopPrpagation()) when it came from within a .menuWrapper element. If this didn't happen, the click came from somewhere else, and will by default make it's way up to document, if it gets there, we hide those .menuWrapper elements.

Just have your menuWraper element call event.stopPropagation() so that its click event doesn't bubble up to the document.

Try it out: http://jsfiddle.net/Py7Mu/

$(document).click(function() {
    alert('clicked outside');
});

$(".menuWraper").click(function(event) {
    alert('clicked inside');
    event.stopPropagation();
});

• http://api.jquery.com/event.stopPropagation/

Alternatively, you could return false; instead of using event.stopPropagation();