You can apply click on body of document and cancel click processing if the click event is generated by div with id menu_content, This will bind event to single element and saving binding of click with every element except menu_content
$('body').click(function(evt){
if(evt.target.id == "menu_content")
return;
//For descendants of menu_content being clicked, remove this check if you do not want to put constraint on descendants.
if($(evt.target).closest('#menu_content').length)
return;
//Do processing of click event here for every element except with id menu_content
});
See the documentation for jQuery Event Target. Using the target property of the event object, you can detect where the click originated within the #menu_content element and, if so, terminate the click handler early. You will have to use .closest() to handle cases where the click originated in a descendant of #menu_content.
$(document).click(function(e){
// Check if click was triggered on or within #menu_content
if( $(e.target).closest("#menu_content").length > 0 ) {
return false;
}
// Otherwise
// trigger your click function
});
I know that this question has been answered, And all the answers are nice.
But I wanted to add my two cents to this question for people who have similar (but not exactly the same) problem.
In a more general way, we can do something like this:
This way we can handle not only events fired by anything except element with id menu_content but also events that are fired by anything except any element that we can select using CSS selectors.
For instance in the following code snippet I am getting events fired by any element except all <li> elements which are descendants of div element with id myNavbar.
$(":not(#menu_content)").on("click", function(e) {
e.stopPropagation();
// Run your function when clicked anywhere except #menu_content
// Use with caution, 'cause it will prevent clicking on other elements
});
$("#menu_content").on("click", function(e) {
e.stopPropagation();
// Run when clicked on #menu_content
});