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I use $(event.target).closest("#divID").length to hide a div when the user clicks outside of it but in the case that the div is visible and I click on a date (datepicker) it won't hide the div.
Also if I click on a <select> sometimes it hides it sometimes it doesn't.
Is there a better solution to hide a div when something else is clicked?
Is my implementation wrong?
ps: #log_in is the login button, #log_in_form is the form that I want to hide on outside click and #log_in_container is the div that contains #log_in and and #log_in_form
UPDATE: I just noticed that the disappearance isn't the same on windows 10 and linux ubuntu 16.04. On a pc with windows 10 using google chrome the form disappears on the first click i do on a select(thats the desirable functionality) but still doesn't disappear if i choose a date. While on linux ubuntu 16.04 on google chrome it is as i described above (doesn't disappear on date choice and also doesn't disappear on the first click you do on select)
Example based on Andrei's answer with snippet
$(document).on('click', function(e){
if($(e.target).closest('#log_in').is('#log_in'))
{
$('#log_in_form').fadeIn();
}
else if(!$(e.target).closest('#log_in_container').is('#log_in_container'))
{
$('#log_in_form').fadeOut();
}
})#log_in_container{
display:inline-block;
width:122px;
height:58px;
margin-left:60px;
background-color:gray;
}
#log_in{
display:block;
width:120px;
height:28px;
text-align: center;
border: 1px solid red;
font-size:16px;
background-color:yellow;
vertical-align: top;
}
#log_in_form{
display:none;
position:absolute;
width:120px;
height:28px;
text-align: center;
background-color: green;
border: 1px solid blue;
}
.type{
display:inline-block;
width:120px;
height:30px;
text-align: center;
border: 1px solid red;
font-size:16px;
}<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Date picker ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<script>
$( function()
{
$( "#datepicker" ).datepicker();
});
</script>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<select class="type">
<option value="null" disabled="disabled" selected="selected"><p style="color:gray;">Select hero</p></option>
<option value="0">Spiderman</option>
<option value="1">Iron man</option>
<option value="2">Deadpool</option>
</select>
<select class="type">
<option value="null" disabled="disabled" selected="selected"><p style="color:gray;">Select food</p></option>
<option value="0">Kebab</option>
<option value="1">Mousaka</option>
<option value="2">Noodles</option>
</select>
<div id="log_in_container">
<div id="log_in">Log_In_button</div>
<div id ="log_in_form">login_form</div>
</div>
<div id="datepicker"></div>
</body>
</html>In the above snippet if you click at Log_in_button the Log_in_form appears. If then you click on a date it doesn't disappear, then click on a select the Log_in_form still doesn't disappear, after that click on the next select the Log_in_form is still visible. I would like to make it so that it disappears in these occasions (like select pop up does). Is this possible?
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currentTarget is only available while the event is being handled. If you console. log() the event object, storing it in a variable, and then look for the currentTarget key in the console, its value will be null . Instead, you should either use console.
target is the element that triggered the event (e.g., the user clicked on) currenttarget is the element that the event listener is attached to.
Definition and Usage The currentTarget property always refers to the element whose event listener triggered the event, opposed to the target property, which returns the element that triggered the event.
The closest() method traverses the Element and its parents (heading toward the document root) until it finds a node that matches the provided selector string.
jQuery works only with event bubbling (the event starts at the target element and works up the DOM tree, raising click events until it reaches the top level document). The potential issue with this, as you can see with the ui-datepicker, is that elements can cancel the bubbling by using event.stopPropagation(), and the document never gets it.
Instead you need to use raw Javascript event capturing instead, where the top-level element captures the event happening and passes it down the DOM tree.
The diagram on the W3C site explains the capture and bubble flow nicely, and see this question for more details and cross-browser implementation.
The change required to your code is minimal, you are just using document.addEventListener instead of $(document).on:
document.addEventListener("click", function(e){
if($(e.target).closest('#log_in').is('#log_in'))
{
$('#log_in_form').fadeIn();
}
else if(!$(e.target).closest('#log_in_container').is('#log_in_container'))
{
$('#log_in_form').fadeOut();
}
}, true);#log_in_container{
display:inline-block;
width:122px;
height:58px;
margin-left:60px;
background-color:gray;
}
#log_in{
display:block;
width:120px;
height:28px;
text-align: center;
border: 1px solid red;
font-size:16px;
background-color:yellow;
vertical-align: top;
}
#log_in_form{
display:none;
position:absolute;
width:120px;
height:28px;
text-align: center;
background-color: green;
border: 1px solid blue;
}
.type{
display:inline-block;
width:120px;
height:30px;
text-align: center;
border: 1px solid red;
font-size:16px;
}<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Date picker ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<script>
$( function()
{
$( "#datepicker" ).datepicker();
});
</script>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<select class="type">
<option value="null" disabled="disabled" selected="selected"><p style="color:gray;">Select hero</p></option>
<option value="0">Spiderman</option>
<option value="1">Iron man</option>
<option value="2">Deadpool</option>
</select>
<select class="type">
<option value="null" disabled="disabled" selected="selected"><p style="color:gray;">Select food</p></option>
<option value="0">Kebab</option>
<option value="1">Mousaka</option>
<option value="2">Noodles</option>
</select>
<div id="log_in_container">
<div id="log_in">Log_In_button</div>
<div id ="log_in_form">login_form</div>
</div>
<div id="datepicker"></div>
</body>
</html>As you mentioned previously, the initial <select> does work in Chrome on Windows, but not Chrome on Linux. Browsers often hand off rendering of form controls to the OS for visual consistency, but this can introduce inconsistency in behaviour. <select>s are probably the most inconsistent of the base form controls, because of their added complexity. This question demonstrates this issue, particularly:
Chrome 19 on Linux: First mouse click expands options [click event not triggered], subsequent click on either the still-present select, or the options, triggers click event.
As this is a browser behaviour which you don't have control over, I don't think there is any way around it - you can only handle the events it fires. If the event is not fired by the browser, you can't react to it.
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You can simply use mouseup event instead of click which will work even on date click.
$(document).on('mouseup', function(e){
if($(e.target).closest('#log_in').is('#log_in'))
{
$('#log_in_form').fadeIn();
}
else if(!$(e.target).closest('#log_in_container').is('#log_in_container'))
{
$('#log_in_form').fadeOut();
}
})#log_in_container{
display:inline-block;
width:122px;
height:58px;
margin-left:60px;
background-color:gray;
}
#log_in{
display:block;
width:120px;
height:28px;
text-align: center;
border: 1px solid red;
font-size:16px;
background-color:yellow;
vertical-align: top;
}
#log_in_form{
display:none;
position:absolute;
width:120px;
height:28px;
text-align: center;
background-color: green;
border: 1px solid blue;
}
.type{
display:inline-block;
width:120px;
height:30px;
text-align: center;
border: 1px solid red;
font-size:16px;
}<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Date picker ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<script>
$( function()
{
$( "#datepicker" ).datepicker();
});
</script>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<select class="type">
<option value="null" disabled="disabled" selected="selected"><p style="color:gray;">Select hero</p></option>
<option value="0">Spiderman</option>
<option value="1">Iron man</option>
<option value="2">Deadpool</option>
</select>
<select class="type">
<option value="null" disabled="disabled" selected="selected"><p style="color:gray;">Select food</p></option>
<option value="0">Kebab</option>
<option value="1">Mousaka</option>
<option value="2">Noodles</option>
</select>
<div id="log_in_container">
<div id="log_in">Log_In_button</div>
<div id ="log_in_form">login_form</div>
</div>
<div id="datepicker"></div>
</body>
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