Reputation: 7156
I have a Twitter Bootstrap dropdown menu. As all Twitter Bootstrap users know, the dropdown menu closes on click (even clicking inside it).
To avoid this, I can easily attach a click event handler on the dropdown menu and simply add the famous event.stopPropagation()
.
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li class="dropdown mega-dropdown">
<a href="javascript:;" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">
<i class="fa fa-list-alt"></i> Menu item 1
<span class="fa fa-chevron-down pull-right"></span>
</a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu mega-dropdown-menu">
<li>
<div id="carousel" class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel">
<ol class="carousel-indicators">
<li data-slide-to="0" data-target="#carousel"></li>
<li class="active" data-slide-to="1" data-target="#carousel"></li>
</ol>
<div class="carousel-inner">
<div class="item">
<img alt="" class="img-rounded" src="img1.jpg">
</div>
<div class="item active">
<img alt="" class="img-rounded" src="img2.jpg">
</div>
</div>
<a data-slide="prev" role="button" href="#carousel"
class="left carousel-control">
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-left"></span>
</a>
<a data-slide="next" role="button" href="#carousel"
class="right carousel-control">
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-right"></span>
</a>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
This looks easy and a very common behavior, however, and since carousel-controls
(as well as carousel indicators
) event handlers are delegated to the document
object, the click
event on these elements (prev/next controls, ...) will be “ignored”.
$('ul.dropdown-menu.mega-dropdown-menu').on('click', function(event){
// The event won't be propagated up to the document NODE and
// therefore delegated events won't be fired
event.stopPropagation();
});
Relying on Twitter Bootstrap dropdown hide
/hidden
events is not a solution for the following reasons:
flag
class or attribute is not possibleThis fiddle is the normal behavior and this fiddle is with event.stopPropagation()
added.
Thanks to Roman for his answer. I also found an answer that you can find below.
Upvotes: 402
Views: 503324
Reputation: 677
Bootstrap provides the following function:
| This event is fired immediately when the hide instance method hide.bs.dropdown | has been called. The toggling anchor element is available as the | relatedTarget property of the event.
Therefore, implementing this function should be able to disable the dropdown from closing.
$('#myDropdown').on('hide.bs.dropdown', function (e) {
var target = $(e.clickEvent.target);
if(target.hasClass("keepopen") || target.parents(".keepopen").length){
return false; // returning false should stop the dropdown from hiding.
}else{
return true;
}
});
Upvotes: 51
Reputation: 1783
In the new Bootstrap 5 the solution is trivially simple.
Quote from the documentation page:
By default, the dropdown menu is closed when clicking inside or outside the dropdown menu. You can use the autoClose option to change this behavior of the dropdown.
In addition to the default behavior, we have 3 options available here:
data-bs-auto-close="outside"
data-bs-auto-close="inside"
data-bs-auto-close="false"
E.g.:
<div class="btn-group">
<button class="btn btn-secondary dropdown-toggle" data-bs-auto-close="inside" type="button" id="dropdownMenuClickableInside" data-bs-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="false">
Clickable inside
</button>
<ul class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenuClickableInside">
<li><a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Menu item</a></li>
<li><a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Menu item</a></li>
<li><a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Menu item</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
More info: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/components/dropdowns/#auto-close-behavior
Upvotes: 66
Reputation: 304
Bootstrap 5
If anyone comes to this via Google wanting a Bootstrap 5 version like I was, it's built in by adding data-bs-auto-close="outside"
. Note the option is autoClose
but when passing as a data attribute the camelcasing is removed & separated by a dash.
I have a collapse widget in a dropdown & adding data-bs-auto-close="outside"
to the parent data-bs-toggle="dropdown"
trigger keeps the dropdown open while the collapse is toggled.
See official Bootstrap docs: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/components/dropdowns/#options And this codepen for example code (not my pen): https://codepen.io/SitePoint/pen/BaReWGe
Upvotes: 9
Reputation: 1087
I just add onclick event like below to not close dropdown-menu.
<div class="dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-right" onclick="event.stopPropagation()" aria-labelledby="triggerId">
Upvotes: 54
Reputation: 139
You can also use form
tag. Example:
<div class="dropdown-menu">
<form>
Anything inside this wont close the dropdown!
<button class="btn btn-primary" type="button" value="Click me!"/>
</form>
<div class="dropdown-divider"></div>
<a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Clik this and the dropdown will be closed</a>
<a class="dropdown-item" href="#">This too</a>
</div>
Source: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/components/dropdowns/#forms
Upvotes: 8
Reputation: 1
$(document).click(function (event) {
$target = $(event.target);
if ($target.closest('#DivdropFilterListItemsCustomer').length == 1) {
$('#DivdropFilterListItemsCustomer').addClass('dropdown-menu show');
} else {
$('#DivdropFilterListItemsCustomer').removeClass('dropdown-menu
show').addClass('dropdown-menu');
}
});
DivdropFilterListItemsCustomer is id of drop down
[Show id and drop down ][1]
#A2ZCode
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 2532
$('body').on("click", ".dropdown-menu", function (e) {
$(this).parent().is(".show") && e.stopPropagation();
});
Upvotes: 10
Reputation: 8552
Bootstrap 4
$('.dropdown-menu[data-handledropdownclose="true"]').on("click.bs.dropdown", function (e) {
if ($(this).parent().hasClass("show")) {
var target = $(e.target);
if (!(target.hasClass("CloseDropDown") || target.parents(".CloseDropDown").length)) {
e.stopPropagation();
}
}
});
<div class="dropdown">
<button type="button" class="btn-no-border dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">
<img src="~/Content/CSS/CssImages/Icons/usr_icon.png" alt="" title="language" class="float-right" />
</button>
<div class="dropdown-menu profile-menu-logout" data-handledropdownclose="true">
<div class="prof-name">
<i class="fa fa-user"></i> Hello World
</div>
<hr />
<div>
<a href="/Test/TestAction" class="CloseDropDown">
<i class="fa fa-briefcase"></i>
<span>Test Action</span>
</a>
</div>
<div>
<nav>
<ul class="nav-menu-prof padding-0">
<li class="menu-has-children">
<a href="#">
<span class="cyan-text-color">
Test 2
</span>
</a>
<ul id="ulList" class="padding-0 pad-left-25">
<li>
<a href="/Test/Test2" class="action currentmenu"> Test 1 </a>
<a href="/Test/Test2" class="action CloseDropDown"> Test 2 </a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</div>
<div>
<a href="/Account/Logout" class="cyan-text-color CloseDropDown">
<i class="fa fa-power-off"></i>
<span>Logout</span>
</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 7709
You could simply execute event.stopPropagation
on click event of the links themselves.
Something like this.
$(".dropdown-menu a").click((event) => {
event.stopPropagation()
let url = event.target.href
//Do something with the url or any other logic you wish
})
Edit: If someone saw this answer and is using react, it will not work. React handle the javascript events differently and by the time your react event handler is being called, the event has already been fired and propagated. To overcome that you should attach the event manually like that
handleMenuClick(event) {
event.stopPropagation()
let menu_item = event.target
//implement your logic here.
}
componentDidMount() {
document.getElementsByClassName("dropdown-menu")[0].addEventListener(
"click", this.handleMenuClick.bind(this), false)
}
}
Upvotes: 6
Reputation: 720
I tried this simple thing and it worked like a charm.
I changed the dropdown-menu element from <div>
to <form>
and it worked well.
<div class="nav-item dropdown" >
<a href="javascript:;" class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">
Click to open dropdown
</a>
<form class="dropdown-menu ">
<ul class="list-group text-black">
<li class="list-group-item" >
</li>
<li class="list-group-item" >
</li>
</ul>
</form>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.7/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<div class="nav-item dropdown" >
<a href="javascript:;" class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">
Click to open dropdown
</a>
<form class="dropdown-menu ">
<ul class="list-group text-black">
<li class="list-group-item" >
List Item 1
</li>
<li class="list-group-item" >
LI 2<input class="form-control" />
</li>
<li class="list-group-item" >
List Item 3
</li>
</ul>
</form>
Upvotes: 18
Reputation: 17
You can go through the below code to solve this.
$(document).on('click.bs.dropdown.data-api', '.keep_it_open', function (e) {
e.stopPropagation();
});
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.12.9/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<div class="dropdown keep_it_open">
<button class="btn btn-primary dropdown-toggle" type="button" data-toggle="dropdown">Dropdown Example
<span class="caret"></span></button>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li><a href="#">HTML</a></li>
<li><a href="#">CSS</a></li>
<li><a href="#">JavaScript</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 1531
In Bootstrap 4 you can also do this:
$('#dd-link').on('hide.bs.dropdown', onListHide)
function onListHide(e)
{
if(e.clickEvent && $.contains(e.relatedTarget.parentNode, e.clickEvent.target)) {
e.preventDefault()
}
}
where #dd-link
is the anchor element or button that has the data-toggle="drowndown"
property.
Upvotes: -1
Reputation: 1229
I modified @Vartan's answer to make it work with Bootstrap 4.3. His solution doesn't work anymore with the latest version as target
property always returns dropdown's root div
no matter where the click was placed.
Here is the code:
$('.dropdown-keep-open').on('hide.bs.dropdown', function (e) {
if (!e.clickEvent) {
// There is no `clickEvent` property in the `e` object when the `button` (or any other trigger) is clicked.
// What we usually want to happen in such situations is to hide the dropdown so we let it hide.
return true;
}
var target = $(e.clickEvent.target);
return !(target.hasClass('dropdown-keep-open') || target.parents('.dropdown-keep-open').length);
});
<div class="dropdown dropdown-keep-open">
<button class="btn btn-secondary dropdown-toggle" type="button" id="dropdownMenuButton" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">
Dropdown button
</button>
<div class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenuButton">
<a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Action</a>
<a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Another action</a>
<a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Something else here</a>
</div>
</div>
Upvotes: 12
Reputation: 11
You may have some problems if you use return false or stopPropagation() method because your events will be interrupted. Try this code, it's works fine:
$(function() {
$('.dropdown').on("click", function (e) {
$('.keep-open').removeClass("show");
});
$('.dropdown-toggle').on("click", function () {
$('.keep-open').addClass("show");
});
$( ".closeDropdown" ).click(function() {
$('.dropdown').closeDropdown();
});
});
jQuery.fn.extend({
closeDropdown: function() {
this.addClass('show')
.removeClass("keep-open")
.click()
.addClass("keep-open");
}
});
In HTML:
<div class="dropdown keep-open" id="search-menu" >
<button class="btn dropdown-toggle btn btn-primary" type="button" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">
<i class="fa fa-filter fa-fw"></i>
</button>
<div class="dropdown-menu">
<button class="dropdown-item" id="opt1" type="button">Option 1</button>
<button class="dropdown-item" id="opt2" type="button">Option 2</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary closeDropdown">Close</button>
</div>
</div>
If you want to close the dropdrown:
`$('#search-menu').closeDropdown();`
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 9201
This helped me,
$('.dropdown-menu').on('click', function (e) {
if ($(this).parent().is(".open")) {
var target = $(e.target);
if (target.hasClass("keepopen") || target.parents(".keepopen").length){
return false;
}else{
return true;
}
}
});
Your drop down menu element needs to be like this, (take a note of the classes dropdown-menu
and keepopen
.
<ul role="menu" class="dropdown-menu topmenu-menu eserv_top_notifications keepopen">
The above code prevents biding on the whole <body>
, instead to the specfic element with the class dropdown-menu
.
Hope this helps someone.
Thanks.
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 305
I did it with this:
$(element).on({
'mouseenter': function(event) {
$(event.currentTarget).data('mouseover', true);
},
'mouseleave': function(event) {
$(event.currentTarget).data('mouseover', false);
},
'hide.bs.dropdown': function (event) {
return !$(event.currentTarget).data('mouseover');
}
});
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 1514
Bootstrap has solved this problem themselves in their support for <form>
tags in dropdowns. Their solution is quite graspable and you can read it here: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/v4-dev/js/src/dropdown.js
It boils down to preventing propagation at the document element and doing so only for events of type 'click.bs.dropdown.data-api'
that match the selector '.dropdown .your-custom-class-for-keep-open-on-click-elements'
.
Or in code
$(document).on('click.bs.dropdown.data-api', '.dropdown .keep-open-on-click', (event) => {
event.stopPropagation();
});
Upvotes: 7
Reputation: 4018
This might help:
$("dropdownmenuname").click(function(e){
e.stopPropagation();
})
Upvotes: 45
Reputation: 748
I know there already is a previous answer suggesting to use a form but the markup provided is not correct/ideal. Here's the easiest solution, no javascript needed at all and it doesn't break your dropdown. Works with Bootstrap 4.
<form class="dropdown-item">
<!-- Your elements go here -->
</form>
Upvotes: 3
Reputation: 3079
For closing the dropdown only if a click event was triggered outside the bootstrap dropdown, this is what worked for me:
JS file:
$('.createNewElement').on('click.bs.dropdown.data-api', '.tags-btn-group.keep-open-dropdown', function (e) {
var target = $(e.target);
if (target.hasClass("dropdown-menu") || target.parents(".dropdown-menu").length) {
e.stopPropagation();
}
});
HTML file:
<!-- button: -->
<div class="createNewElement">
<div class="btn-group tags-btn-group keep-open-dropdown">
<div class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="false">OPEN DROPDOWN</div>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
WHAT EVER YOU WANT HERE...
</ul>
</div>
</div>
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 23
$(function() {
var closeble = false;
$('body').on('click', function (e) {
if (!$(event.target).is("a.dropdown-toggle")) {
closeble = false;
}
});
$('.dropdown').on({
"click": function(event) {
if ($(event.target).closest('.dropdown-toggle').length) {
closeble = true;
} else {
closeble = false;
}
},
"hide.bs.dropdown": function() {
return closeble;
}
});
});
Upvotes: -1
Reputation: 39
In .dropdown
content put the .keep-open
class on any label like so:
$('.dropdown').on('click', function (e) {
var target = $(e.target);
var dropdown = target.closest('.dropdown');
if (target.hasClass('keep-open')) {
$(dropdown).addClass('keep-open');
} else {
$(dropdown).removeClass('keep-open');
}
});
$(document).on('hide.bs.dropdown', function (e) {
var target = $(e.target);
if ($(target).is('.keep-open')) {
return false
}
});
The previous cases avoided the events related to the container objects, now the container inherits the class keep-open and check before being closed.
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 87
Instead of writing some javascript or jquery code(reinventing the wheel). The above scenario can be managed by bootstrap auto-close option. You can provide either of the values to auto-close:
always - (Default) automatically closes the dropdown when any of its elements is clicked.
outsideClick - closes the dropdown automatically only when the user clicks any element outside the dropdown.
disabled - disables the auto close
Take a look at the following plunkr :
http://plnkr.co/edit/gnU8M2fqlE0GscUQtCWa?p=preview
Set
uib-dropdown auto-close="disabled"
Hope this helps :)
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 1024
jQuery:
<script>
$(document).on('click.bs.dropdown.data-api', '.dropdown.keep-inside-clicks-open', function (e) {
e.stopPropagation();
});
</script>
HTML:
<div class="dropdown keep-inside-clicks-open">
<button class="btn btn-primary dropdown-toggle" type="button" data-toggle="dropdown">
Dropdown Example
<span class="caret"></span>
</button>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li><a href="#">HTML</a></li>
<li><a href="#">CSS</a></li>
<li><a href="#">JavaScript</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
Demo:
Generic: https://jsfiddle.net/kerryjohnson/omefq68b/1/
Your demo with this solution: http://jsfiddle.net/kerryjohnson/80oLdtbf/101/
Upvotes: 13
Reputation: 21
[Bootstrap 4 Alpha 6][Rails]
For rails developer, e.stopPropagation()
will lead to undesirable behavior for link_to
with data-method
not equal to get
since it will by default return all your request as get
.
To remedy this problem, I suggest this solution, which is universal
$('.dropdown .dropdown-menu').on('click.bs.dropdown', function() {
return $('.dropdown').one('hide.bs.dropdown', function() {
return false;
});
});
$('.dropdown .dropdown-menu').on('click.bs.dropdown', function() {
return $('.dropdown').one('hide.bs.dropdown', function() {
return false;
});
});
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-rwoIResjU2yc3z8GV/NPeZWAv56rSmLldC3R/AZzGRnGxQQKnKkoFVhFQhNUwEyJ" crossorigin="anonymous">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-A7FZj7v+d/sdmMqp/nOQwliLvUsJfDHW+k9Omg/a/EheAdgtzNs3hpfag6Ed950n" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tether/1.4.0/js/tether.min.js" integrity="sha384-DztdAPBWPRXSA/3eYEEUWrWCy7G5KFbe8fFjk5JAIxUYHKkDx6Qin1DkWx51bBrb" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha.6/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-vBWWzlZJ8ea9aCX4pEW3rVHjgjt7zpkNpZk+02D9phzyeVkE+jo0ieGizqPLForn" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li class="dropdown mega-dropdown">
<a href="javascript:;" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">
<i class="fa fa-list-alt"></i> Menu item 1
<span class="fa fa-chevron-down pull-right"></span>
</a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu mega-dropdown-menu">
<li>
<div id="carousel" class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel">
<ol class="carousel-indicators">
<li data-slide-to="0" data-target="#carousel"></li>
<li class="active" data-slide-to="1" data-target="#carousel"></li>
</ol>
<div class="carousel-inner">
<div class="item">
<img alt="" class="img-rounded" src="img1.jpg">
</div>
<div class="item active">
<img alt="" class="img-rounded" src="img2.jpg">
</div>
</div>
<a data-slide="prev" role="button" href="#carousel" class="left carousel-control">
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-left"></span>
</a>
<a data-slide="next" role="button" href="#carousel" class="right carousel-control">
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-right"></span>
</a>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 1446
I've found none of the solutions worked as I would like using default bootstrap nav. Here is my solution to this problem:
$(document).on('hide.bs.dropdown', function (e) {
if ($(e.currentTarget.activeElement).hasClass('dropdown-toggle')) {
$(e.relatedTarget).parent().removeClass('open');
return true;
}
return false;
});
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 2599
$('body').on("click", ".dropdown-menu", function (e) {
$(this).parent().is(".open") && e.stopPropagation();
});
This may work for any conditions.
Upvotes: 24
Reputation: 439
With Angular2 Bootstrap, you can use nonInput for most scenarios:
<div dropdown autoClose="nonInput">
nonInput - (default) automatically closes the dropdown when any of its elements is clicked — as long as the clicked element is not an input or a textarea.
https://valor-software.com/ng2-bootstrap/#/dropdowns
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 3195
The simplest working solution for me is:
keep-open
class to elements that should not cause dropdown closing$('.dropdown').on('click', function(e) {
var target = $(e.target);
var dropdown = target.closest('.dropdown');
return !dropdown.hasClass('open') || !target.hasClass('keep-open');
});
Upvotes: 1