How to hide drawer upon user click

Question

How do I hide the drawer when the user clicks on an item? Or when a button is clicked?

<div class="mdl-layout__drawer">
        <span class="mdl-layout-title">Title</span>
        <button class="mdl-button mdl-js-button mdl-button--fab mdl-button--mini-fab mdl-js-ripple-effect" id="clickme">
          <i class="material-icons">add</i>
        </button>
</div>

How do I do it that when the button is clicked, the drawer will be hidden as if I clicked outside of the drawer? I tried simulating a click event outside of the drawer but it still does not hide.

Answer 1

toggleDrawer is now a public function since @be54f78.

var layout = document.querySelector('.mdl-layout');
layout.MaterialLayout.toggleDrawer();

Not currently available with v1.0.6, so you will need to build from source (as of today).

Answer 2

I believe you can remove the is-visible class from .mdl-layout__drawer. I tried modifying a codepen example from their site: demo. My pure javascript event binding is rusty, but as I mentioned, you just need to remove the .is-visible class from the drawer.

Update

The code I provided was for v1.0.0 of mdl and is not actual anymore. Starting at v1.1.0 there is a public API provided for toggling the drawer, as described in Benjamin's answer. If you're between v1.0.6 and v1.1.0, have a look at idleherb's answer.