How do I detect a click outside an element?

I have some HTML menus, which I show completely when a user clicks on the head of these menus. I would like to hide these elements when the user clicks outside the menus' area.
Is something like this possible with jQuery?
$("#menuscontainer").clickOutsideThisElement(function() {
    // Hide the menus
});



Answer:

Attach a click event to the document body which closes the window. Attach a separate click event to the window which stops propagation to the document body.
$(window).click(function() {
//Hide the menus if visible
});

$('#menucontainer').click(function(event){
    event.stopPropagation();
});


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/152975/how-do-i-detect-a-click-outside-an-element

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