second parameter to jQuery's die is a selector string?

Question

I ran into a usage of jQuery's die that is either a custom extension or not documented... According to the jQuery docs, the second parameter should be a method (http://api.jquery.com/die/). I'm seeing a usage where the second parameter is selector string. Does anyone know what this does?

    $("*").die('click', '.optionsMenu');

I'd think its only removing certain click handlers, but not sure precisely what its doing.

Answer 1

It's not using the parameter (since it's not a function), it's the same as calling:

$("*").die('click');

So it's killing all .live('click',....) events, I think what they meant to do was this:

$('.optionsMenu').die('click');