clicking on a div's scroll bar fires the blur event in I.E.

Question

Hi,

I have a div that acts like a drop-down. so it pops-up when you click a button and it allows you to scroll through this big list. So the div has a vertical scroll bar. The div is supposed to disappear if you click outside of the div, i.e. on blur. the problem is that when the user clicks on the div's scrollbar, IE wrongly fires the onblur event, whereas Firefox doesn't. I guess firefox still treats the scrollbar as part of the div, which i think is correct. I just want IE to behave the same way.

Answer 1

I'm having a similar problem with IE firing the blur event when you click on a scrollbar. Apparently it only happens n IE7 and below, and IE8 in quirksmode.

Here's something I found via Google

https://prototype.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8887/tickets/248-results-popup-from-ajaxautocompleter-disappear-when-user-clicks-on-scrollbars-in-ie6ie7

Basically you only do the blur if you know the person clicked somewhere on the document other than the currently focused div. It's possible to inversely detect the scrollbar click because document.onclick doesn't fire when you click on the scrollbar.

Answer 2

I had the same probleme. Resolved by putting the menu in a wrapping (bigger) div. With the blur applied to the wrapper, it worked!