I think the difference is that there is a mousemove between mousedown and mouseup in a drag, but not in a click.
You can do something like this:
const element = document.createElement('div')
element.innerHTML = 'test'
document.body.appendChild(element)
let moved
let downListener = () => {
moved = false
}
element.addEventListener('mousedown', downListener)
let moveListener = () => {
moved = true
}
element.addEventListener('mousemove', moveListener)
let upListener = () => {
if (moved) {
console.log('moved')
} else {
console.log('not moved')
}
}
element.addEventListener('mouseup', upListener)
// release memory
element.removeEventListener('mousedown', downListener)
element.removeEventListener('mousemove', moveListener)
element.removeEventListener('mouseup', upListener)