jquery select anything but this and its descendents
<p>I am trying to figured out how to make a menu disappear when the user clicks outside of it.
my approach is this :</p>

<pre><code>$(*).not(menu).bind('click', function() { $(menu).hide() })
</code></pre>

<p>for some reason this is not working. any idea what I might be doing wrong? 
thank you</p>
