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tpae
tpae

Reputation: 6346

jQuery trigger event when click outside the element

$(document).click(function(evt) {
    var target = evt.currentTarget;
    var inside = $(".menuWraper");
    if (target != inside) {
        alert("bleep");
    }

});

I am trying to figure out how to make it so that if a user clicks outside of a certain div (menuWraper), it triggers an event.. I realized I can just make every click fire an event, then check if the clicked currentTarget is same as the object selected from $(".menuWraper"). However, this doesn't work, currentTarget is HTML object(?) and $(".menuWraper") is Object object? I am very confused.

Upvotes: 34

Views: 130288

Answers (11)

Programer_saeed
Programer_saeed

Reputation: 133

    var visibleNotification = false;

  function open_notification() {
        if (visibleNotification == false) {
            $('.notification-panel').css('visibility', 'visible');
            visibleNotification = true;
        } else {
            $('.notification-panel').css('visibility', 'hidden');
            visibleNotification = false;
        }
    }

    $(document).click(function (evt) {
        var target = evt.target.className;
        if(target!="fa fa-bell-o bell-notification")
        {
            var inside = $(".fa fa-bell-o bell-notification");
            if ($.trim(target) != '') {
                if ($("." + target) != inside) {
                    if (visibleNotification == true) {
                        $('.notification-panel').css('visibility', 'hidden');
                        visibleNotification = false;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    });

Upvotes: 0

ghazizadeh
ghazizadeh

Reputation: 11

function handler(event) {
 var target = $(event.target);
 if (!target.is("div.menuWraper")) {
  alert("outside");
 }
}
$("#myPage").click(handler);

Upvotes: 1

Jack Vo
Jack Vo

Reputation: 289

$(document).click((e) => {
  if ($.contains($(".the-one-you-can-click-and-should-still-open").get(0), e.target)) {
  } else {
    this.onClose();
  }
});

Upvotes: 3

Baz Love
Baz Love

Reputation: 61

This code will open the menu in question, and will setup a click listener event. When triggered it will loop through the target id's parents until it finds the menu id. If it doesn't, it will hide the menu because the user has clicked outside the menu. I've tested it and it works.

function tog_alerts(){
   if($('#Element').css('display') == 'none'){
       $('#Element').show();
       setTimeout(function () {
           document.body.addEventListener('click', Close_Alerts, false);
       }, 500);
   }
}

function Close_Alerts(e){
   var current = e.target;
   var check = 0;
   while (current.parentNode){
      current = current.parentNode
      if(current.id == 'Element'){
         check = 1;
      }
   }
   if(check == 0){
      document.body.removeEventListener('click', Close_Alerts, false);
      $('#Element').hide();         
   }
}

Upvotes: 1

Muhammad Usman
Muhammad Usman

Reputation: 1362

try this one

    $(document).click(function(event) {

        if(event.target.id === 'xxx' )
            return false;
        else {
              // do some this here
        }

    });

Upvotes: 0

dev
dev

Reputation: 411

I know that the question has been answered, but I hope my solution helps other people.

stopPropagation caused problems in my case, because I needed the click event for something else. Moreover, not every element should cause the div to be closed when clicked.

My solution: 

$(document).click(function(e) {
    if (($(e.target).closest("#mydiv").attr("id") != "mydiv") &&
        $(e.target).closest("#div-exception").attr("id") != "div-exception") {
        alert("Clicked outside!");
    }
});

http://jsfiddle.net/NLDu3/

Upvotes: 2

Alexey Sukhikh
Alexey Sukhikh

Reputation: 438

if you have child elements like dropdown menus

$('html').click(function(e) {
  //if clicked element is not your element and parents aren't your div
  if (e.target.id != 'your-div-id' && $(e.target).parents('#your-div-id').length == 0) {
    //do stuff
  }
});

Upvotes: 25

rob waminal
rob waminal

Reputation: 18419

try these..

$(document).click(function(evt) {
    var target = evt.target.className;
    var inside = $(".menuWraper");
    //alert($(target).html());
    if ($.trim(target) != '') {
        if ($("." + target) != inside) {
            alert("bleep");
        }
    }
});

Upvotes: 4

iWantSimpleLife
iWantSimpleLife

Reputation: 1954

I do not think document fires the click event. Try using the body element to capture the click event. Might need to check on that...

Upvotes: 1

user113716
user113716

Reputation: 322502

Just have your menuWraper element call event.stopPropagation() so that its click event doesn't bubble up to the document.

Try it out: http://jsfiddle.net/Py7Mu/

$(document).click(function() {
    alert('clicked outside');
});

$(".menuWraper").click(function(event) {
    alert('clicked inside');
    event.stopPropagation();
});

Alternatively, you could return false; instead of using event.stopPropagation();

Upvotes: 77

Nick Craver
Nick Craver

Reputation: 630429

The most common application here is closing on clicking the document but not when it came from within that element, for this you want to stop the bubbling, like this:

$(".menuWrapper").click(function(e) {
  e.stopPropagation(); //stops click event from reaching document
});
$(document).click(function() {
  $(".menuWrapper").hide(); //click came from somewhere else
});

All were doing here is preventing the click from bubbling up (via event.stopPrpagation()) when it came from within a .menuWrapper element. If this didn't happen, the click came from somewhere else, and will by default make it's way up to document, if it gets there, we hide those .menuWrapper elements.

Upvotes: 12

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