I would like to know if this is the correct way of hiding visible elements when clicked anywhere on the page.
$(document).click(function (event) {
$('#myDIV:visible').hide();
});
The element (div, span etc) cannot disappear when click event occurs withing the boundaries of the element.
Try this
$('.myDiv').click(function(e) { //button click class name is myDiv
e.stopPropagation();
})
$(function(){
$(document).click(function(){
$('.myDiv').hide(); //hide the button
});
});
I use class name instead of ID, because in asp.net you have to worry about the extra stuff .net attaches to the id
EDIT- Since you added a another piece, it would work like this:
$('.myDiv').click(function() { //button click class name is myDiv
e.stopPropagation();
})
$(function(){
$('.openDiv').click(function() {
$('.myDiv').show();
});
$(document).click(function(){
$('.myDiv').hide(); //hide the button
});
});
This doesn't work - it hides the .myDIV when you click inside of it.
$('.openDiv').click(function(e) {
$('.myDiv').show();
e.stopPropagation();
})
$(document).click(function(){
$('.myDiv').hide();
});
});
<a class="openDiv">DISPLAY DIV</a>
<div class="myDiv">HIDE DIV</div>
if i understand you want to hide a div when you click anywhere but the div, and if you do click while over the div, then it should NOT close. you can do this:
$(document).click(function() {
alert("me");
});
$(".myDiv").click(function() {
return false;
});
This binds the click to the entire page, but if you click on the div in question it will cancel the click event.
This following code example seems to work best for me. While you can use 'return false' that stops all handling of that event for the div or any of it's children. If you want to have controls on the pop-up div (a pop-up login form for example) you need to use event.stopPropogation().
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<a id="link" href="#">show box</a>
<div id="box" style="background: #eee; display: none">
<p>a paragraph of text</p>
<input type="file" />
</div>
<script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var box = $('#box');
var link = $('#link');
link.click(function() {
box.show(); return false;
});
$(document).click(function() {
box.hide();
});
box.click(function(e) {
e.stopPropagation();
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Thanks, Thomas. I'm new to JS and I've been looking crazy for a solution to my problem. Yours helped.
I've used jquery to make a Login-box that slides down. For best user experience I desided to make the box disappear when user clicks somewhere but the box. I'm a little bit embarrassed over using about four hours fixing this. But hey, I'm new to JS.
Maybe my code can help someone out:
<body>
<button class="login">Logg inn</button>
<script type="text/javascript">
$("button.login").click(function () {
if ($("div#box:first").is(":hidden")) {
$("div#box").slideDown("slow");}
else {
$("div#box").slideUp("slow");
}
});
</script>
<div id="box">Lots of login content</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var box = $('#box');
var login = $('.login');
login.click(function() {
box.show(); return false;
});
$(document).click(function() {
box.hide();
});
box.click(function(e) {
e.stopPropagation();
});
</script>
</body>