jQuery: $().click(fn) vs. $().bind('click',fn);

Question

For what it's worth, from the jQuery source:

jQuery.each( ("blur,focus,load,resize,scroll,unload,click,dblclick," +
    "mousedown,mouseup,mousemove,mouseover,mouseout,mouseenter,mouseleave," +
    "change,select,submit,keydown,keypress,keyup,error").split(","), function(i, name){

    // Handle event binding
    jQuery.fn[name] = function(fn){
        return fn ? this.bind(name, fn) : this.trigger(name);
    };
});

So no, there's no difference -

$().click(fn)

calls

$().bind('click',fn)

+1 for Matthew's answer, but I thought I should mention that you can also bind more than one event handler in one go using bind

$('#myDiv').bind('mouseover focus', function() {
    $(this).addClass('focus')
});

which is the much cleaner equivalent to:

var myFunc = function() {
    $(this).addClass('focus');
};
$('#myDiv')
    .mouseover(myFunc)
    .focus(myFunc)
;

There is one difference in that you can bind custom events using the second form that you have. Otherwise, they seem to be synonymous. See: jQuery Event Docs

There is the [data] parameter of bind which will occur only at bind-time, once.

You can also specify custom events as the first parameter of bind.

I find the .click() is way more logical, but I guess it's how you think of things.

$('#my_button').click(function() { alert('BOOM!'); });

Seems to be about as dead simple as you get.