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HTML

<a class="button">click</a>
<div id="fired"></div>

CSS

a {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 10;
    cursor: pointer;
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: top;
    text-align: center;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    width: 160px;
    height: 160px;
    line-height: 80px;
    font-size: 24px;
    background: blue;
    color: #fff;
	-webkit-touch-callout: none;
	-webkit-user-select: none;
	-khtml-user-select: none;
	-moz-user-select: none;
	-ms-user-select: none;
	user-select: none;
}
a:active {
    background-color: #00202b;
    height: 80px;
    padding-top: 80px;
}
a:after {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    content: ' ';
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
}

JavaScript

var firedBox = $('#fired'),
    i = 0,
    button = $('.button').on('click', {}, function (event) {

        firedBox.text('event fired ' + i++);
    });