If you are to compare the following code...

$('#clicker').click(function () { alert('Clicked') });

...with this...

$('#clicker').live('click', function () { alert('Clicked') });

...you will find that right- or middle-clicking on the second example, will trigger the event (show the alert box in this case). The first, non-live, click event however, only triggers on a left-click as expected.'

I'm currently trying to make an image gallery which allows users to middle-click if they wish to open the selected image in another tab, however, if using the live() function for the click event, middle-click does not work, and instead triggers the click event.

This behaviour can be observed in the demonstrations on the relative jQuery documentation pages.