Customizing jQuery selectbox

Question

Can I customize this plugin so that on clicking any other place in document except selectbox - its close? I try to add click event for body tag, but it seems dont work..

html

<select>
    <option value="1">1</option>
    <option value="2">2</option>
</select>

css

.selectbox {
    width: 100px;
    border: 1px solid #000;
    padding: 2px 5px;
}
.list {
    background-color: #eee;
    border: 1px #ddd solid;
    padding: 0;
    position: absolute;
    list-style: none;
    width: 100%;
}
.list li:hover {
    color: #fff;
    background-color: #00f;
}

js

! function(t) {
return t.fn.selectbox = function(e) {
    var i;
    return i = t.extend({
        customList: !1
    }, e), this.each(function() {
        var e, n, s, c;
        return s = t(this).css({
            opacity: 0,
            position: "absolute",
            "z-index": 2,
            top: 0,
            width: "100%",
            height: "100%"
        }), i.customList && (n = s.children()), c = s.wrap("<div class='selectbox'></div>").parent().css({
            position: "relative"
        }), c.append("<span class='value'>" + s.val() + "</span>"), i.customList && (s.hide(), e = c.append("<ul class='list'></ul>").find("ul"), n.each(function() {
            return e.append("<li>" + this.text + "</li>")
        }), e.hide()), s.on("change", function() {
            return c.children(".value").text(t(this).val()), !1
        }), i.customList && (c.click(function() {
            return e.toggle(), !1
        }), e.children().click(function() {
            return e.toggle(), s.val(n.eq(e.children().index(this)).attr("value")).trigger("change"), !1
        })), t(this)
    })
}, !1
}(jQuery);

and with this code hook up plugin

$('select').selectbox({customList: true});

Here is JsFiddle DEMO

Answer 1

You can listen to the document on clicks and just hide the .selectbox ul tags. Since the <select> naturally eats the click event to stop it bubbling up to the document, you don't need to worry about checking where the event's come from - you know it's not come from the selectbox.

Generally you should be very leery of binding event handlers to the document, but since this shouldn't ever get called too often (click) is a relatively infrequent event), you should be fine.

This should work:

(function($) {
    $(document).on('click', function(e) {
        $('.selectbox').find('ul').hide();
    });
})(jQuery);

Here's an example jsFiddle

Answer 2

You can hide the options like this, bind click on document and check if the selectbox is clicked or not, then hide.

$(document).on('click',function(e){
    if(!$(e.target).is('select')){
        $('.selectbox ul').hide();
    }
});

DEMO