Question

Sample code is as following:

$('a').mousedown(function(event)
   {
            event.ABC = true;

   });

$(window).mousedown(function(event)
    {
        console.log("event.ABC:",event.ABC);
         //outputs "undefined "

        if( event.ABC)
        {
          // do sth
        } 
        else
        {
            //let it go  
        }


    });

Answer 1

Though I’m not sure exactly what you want to do, I’m guessing it would be a lot easier if you didn’t have to mess with the events object. Just set up a flag variable when your <a>‘s are clicked:

var eventABC = false;

$('a').mousedown(function() {
        eventABC = true;
});

$(window).mousedown(function() {
    console.log("eventABC:", eventABC);
    //outputs true if <a> clicked, false otherwise

    if(eventABC) {
      // do sth
    } else {
        //let it go  
    }

    eventABC = false;
});

But you can trigger events in jQuery. Like so:

$('a').click(function() {
    $(window).trigger("eventABC", ['CustomProperty1', 'CustomProperty2']);
    return false;
});

$(window).bind('eventABC', function(event, param1, param2) {
    alert("eventABC triggered: " + param1);
});