jQuery UI - Close Dialog When Clicked Outside

Question

Sorry to drag this up after so long but I used the below. Any disadvantages? See the open function...

$("#popup").dialog(
{
    height: 670,
    width: 680,
    modal: true,
    autoOpen: false,
    close: function(event, ui) { $('#wrap').show(); },
    open: function(event, ui) 
    { 
        $('.ui-widget-overlay').bind('click', function()
        { 
            $("#popup").dialog('close'); 
        }); 
    }
});

Forget using another plugin:

Here are 3 methods to close a jquery UI dialog when clicking outside popin:

If the dialog is modal/has background overlay: http://jsfiddle.net/jasonday/6FGqN/

jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    jQuery("#dialog").dialog({
        bgiframe: true,
        autoOpen: false,
        height: 100,
        modal: true,
        open: function(){
            jQuery('.ui-widget-overlay').bind('click',function(){
                jQuery('#dialog').dialog('close');
            })
        }
    });
}); 

If dialog is non-modal Method 1: method 1: http://jsfiddle.net/jasonday/xpkFf/

 // Close Pop-in If the user clicks anywhere else on the page
                     jQuery('body')
                      .bind(
                       'click',
                       function(e){
                        if(
                         jQuery('#dialog').dialog('isOpen')
                         && !jQuery(e.target).is('.ui-dialog, a')
                         && !jQuery(e.target).closest('.ui-dialog').length
                        ){
                         jQuery('#dialog').dialog('close');
                        }
                       }
                      );

Non-Modal dialog Method 2: http://jsfiddle.net/jasonday/eccKr/

  $(function() {
            $( "#dialog" ).dialog({
                autoOpen: false, 
                minHeight: 100,
                width: 342,
                draggable: true,
                resizable: false,
                modal: false,
                closeText: 'Close',
                  open: function() {
                      closedialog = 1;
                      $(document).bind('click', overlayclickclose);
                  },
                  focus: function() {
                      closedialog = 0;
                  },
                  close: function() {
                      $(document).unbind('click');
                  }



        });

         $('#linkID').click(function() {
            $('#dialog').dialog('open');
            closedialog = 0;
        });

         var closedialog;

          function overlayclickclose() {
              if (closedialog) {
                  $('#dialog').dialog('close');
              }

              //set to one because click on dialog box sets to zero
              closedialog = 1;
          }


  });

Check out the jQuery Outside Events plugin

Lets you do:

$field_hint.bind('clickoutside',function(){
    $field_hint.dialog('close');
});

Just add this global script, which closes all the modal dialogs just clicking outsite them.

$(document).ready(function()
{
    $(document.body).on("click", ".ui-widget-overlay", function()
    {
        $.each($(".ui-dialog"), function()
        {
            var $dialog;
            $dialog = $(this).children(".ui-dialog-content");
            if($dialog.dialog("option", "modal"))
            {
                $dialog.dialog("close");
            }
        });
    });;
});

$(".ui-widget-overlay").click (function () {
    $("#dialog-id").dialog( "close" );
});

Fiddle showing the above code in action.

I had to do two parts. First the outside click-handler:

$(document).on('click', function(e){
    if ($(".ui-dialog").length) {
        if (!$(e.target).parents().filter('.ui-dialog').length) {
            $('.ui-dialog-content').dialog('close');
        }
    }
}); 

This calls dialog('close') on the generic ui-dialog-content class, and so will close all dialogs if the click didn't originate in one. It will work with modal dialogs too, since the overlay is not part of the .ui-dialog box.

The problem is:

1. Most dialogs are created because of clicks outside of a dialog
2. This handler runs after those clicks have created a dialog and bubbled up to the document, so it immediately closes them.

To fix this, I had to add stopPropagation to those click handlers:

moreLink.on('click', function (e) {
    listBox.dialog();
    e.stopPropagation(); //Don't trigger the outside click handler
});