Question

I would like to fire an event when anything on the page is clicked, and then process normally. For example a click would be fired, I would see if the target matched something, alert if it did, and then have the click event continue (no preventDefault()).

Answer 1

$(document).click(function(e) {
    // e.target is the element which has been clicked.
});

This will handle all click events unless a handler prevents the event from bubbling up (by calling the stopPropagation() method of the event object).