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I'm honestly not sure what you're trying to achieve with that statement - it's definitely not doing what you expect - I think you may be trying to do something like:

1. $(document).click(function(){
2.    if ( $(this).not("#test").length ) {
3.     alert("clicked");
4. });
   

Hi John.

I was trying to show the simplest example of what I was trying to do in my app which is:

1.  Click a link to open a menu (a div).

2.  Click anywhere but that menu to close it.

I understand the code you have above, but I'm just curious as to why it worked in 1.3.2 but not in 1.4.2 (my poor code not withstanding).

To be honest, it's unclear why that could would have even worked in 1.3.2

$(document) selects only the document, and then .not("#test") filters that set to remove any elements that match the expression.  Since the document is by definition NOT also the element with the id of test, you're still left with $(document).click(fn).

Also, you may be interested in http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-clickoutside-plugin/

Thanks for the suggestion.  I actually was able to just use this:

1. $(document).click(function(e) {
2.     if (e.target.id != "test") {
3.         alert("clicked");
4.     }
5. });

Seems to work so far.  I'll check out your suggestion and keep playing around with some different ideas.