jQuery click event on blank space

Question

I'm trying to catch an event when a user clicks a blank space on the page with jQuery. For example, lets say you have the following: ``` Test

Here's some text!

``` I want to catch the event when the user clicks on anything but the p tag. Is there a way to catch something like this?

Accepted Answer

This works in chrome. Haven't tried other browsers. Works off the idea that stickmangumby had:

```
$('body').click( function (e) { 
    if ( e.target == this ) 
        alert('works'); 
});
```

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