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jQuery click off element event


I have a floating div that gets displayed, and I want it to be hidden when the user clicks off the div. This would be similar to the .hover() funtion callback when hovering off an element. Only I want to do this for click.



I tried just setting a click event for the body, which would hide the div, but that gave unexpected results.



Anyone have ideas on how I could easily do this?


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Comments

  1. Another, possibly simpler, option would be to add a transparent div between the floating DIV and the rest of the page.

    A simple click event on the transparent DIV could handle the hiding, and it would avoid the issues you are encountering with the click event.

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  2. If you want to clear the div when you click somewhere else in the page, you can do something like:

    $('body').click(function(event) {
    if (!$(event.target).closest('#myDiv').length) {
    $('#myDiv').hide();
    };
    });

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  3. The Best way to do this is:-


    $(document).bind('click', function(e) {

    var $clicked = $(e.target);

    if (!$clicked.parents().hasClass("divtohide")) {
    $(".divtohide").hide();
    }

    });

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  4. Surely you're looking for the blur event?

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