$('html').click()... anywhere except one element

Question

I have a dynamically appended menu which I am removing if you click anywhere on page including the menu links itself. What I am trying to achieve is to prevent the remove if you click a specific link and that simply does not work for me. Unfortunately I cant use the delegate method, if that would help, due to old version on jquery used on client side, no option to update it.

So maybe you could suggest if there is any way to do so. Here is a quick example of mine.

<script>
    $(function() {
        $('.menu').append('<a href="" class="solid">Option</a> <a href="">Option</a> <a href="">Option</a>');           
                
        $('.menu a').live('click',function(){
            return false;
        });         

        $('a.solid').live('click',function(){
            return false;
        });

        $('html').click(function() {                    
            $('.menu').remove();                
        });             
                            
        });
</script>

and the container

<div class="menu"></div>

Solution 1

Maybe it will work like this

$('html').click(function(e) {                    
   if(!$(e.target).hasClass('solid') )
   {
       $('.menu').remove();                
   }
}); 

see: http://jsfiddle.net/fq86U/2/

Solution 2

have you tried this:

$('.menu a').click(function(event){
   event.stopPropagation();
});

Solution 3

You can also detect clicks on the whole document and check if the current element clicked is your menu element

$(document).click(function(event){
    if(event.target !== $('.menu')[0]) {
        // hide the menu...
    }
});​

Solution 4

$('html').click(function(e) {

        /* exept elements with class someClass */ 
        if($(e.target).hasClass('someClass')){
            e.preventDefault();
            return;
        }

        /* but be carefull the contained links! to be clickable */
        if($(e.target).is('a')){
            return;
        }

        /* here you can code what to do when click on html */

    });

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