Determine if user clicked outside of layer

[EricBrian]

So, I have this layer that is 400px by 200px. I need to know if the user clicks outside of this layer. Anybody have a link to a page that explains how to trap that click?

Thanks.

 

[angelwatt]

You may want to look up event delegation for JavaScript. You might be able to utilize it for this. You can just place a onclick event for the document.window and see if a click in your area also occurs at that same time. A trickier method would involve capturing the 4-corners of your area and find the mouse coordinates and do some simple math to see if you're inside the box.