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hide toggle content, if a user didnt click inside a specific box

I have this code for toggling menus on my site. It will open a menu on click, close others open when you click another and close them all if you click outside.
The issue is, I'm now using this for my search bar to appear too, but if you click inside the search box it vanishes - woops. Would it be possible to amend the hiding code to detect if the user wasn't clicking inside a specific area of the code?
// navbar toggle menu
$(document).on('click', ".toggle-nav > a", function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
event.stopPropagation();
var $toggle = $(this).closest('.toggle-nav').children('.toggle-content');
if ($toggle.hasClass('toggle-active'))
{
$($toggle).removeClass('toggle-active');
}
else
{
$(".toggle-content").removeClass('toggle-active');
$($toggle).addClass('toggle-active');
}
});
// hide the toggle-nav if you click outside of it
$(document).on("click", function ()
{
$(".toggle-content").removeClass('toggle-active');
});

Instead of using click, this uses mouseup. If the target is, for example #search-bar, it won't remove toggle-active from toggle-content elements.
$(document).mouseup(function(e) {
if (!$(e.target).is('#search-bar')) {
$(".toggle-content").removeClass('toggle-active');
}
});
You can see it in action with this jsFiddle.
Hopefully this helps.

Input/ signup field on modal not working

I am trying to add a signup/ input field on a modal but every time I click into the input field it just toggles off the modal
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".button a").click(function(){
$(".overlay").fadeToggle(200);
$(this).toggleClass('btn-open').toggleClass('btn-close');
});
});
$('.overlay').on('click', function(){
$(".overlay").fadeToggle(200);
$(".button a").toggleClass('btn-open').toggleClass('btn-close');
open = false;
});
http://codepen.io/kingatron/pen/qZLmjQ
How can I amend the jquery so I can still use the input field?

Check for input as target when you click the overlay.
$('.overlay').on('click', function(e){
if(e.target.id != "mce-EMAIL") {
$(".overlay").fadeToggle(200);
$(".button a").toggleClass('btn-open').toggleClass('btn-close');
open = false;
}
});
This will check that if you click inside input on overlay then click action won't occur that is no toggle of overlay.
Refer this pen.

Your event is bubbling up from the element you clicked all the way through dom tree of elements located underneath where you clicked. As such the
$('.overlay').on('click', function(){...});
handler is firing, and closing your overlay.
If you add an argument to the function definition, you can check the target of the event to identify the top element that was clicked on.
$('.overlay').on('click', function(){
// check el.target to identify the element clicked on
// to determine whether the overlay should be shown
// if the element isn't the overlay div
if (el.target != this)
{
// exit and return false to prevent the event from bubbling
return false;
}
// otherwise hide the overlay...
$(".overlay").fadeToggle(200);
$(".button a").toggleClass('btn-open').toggleClass('btn-close');
open = false;
});

I changed $(".overlay").fadeToggle(200); to $(".button a").fadeToggle(200); and then changed the input type in the html. Thanks for taking the time to look at my question tho

how can I check if a particular item is clicked with .blur() in jquery

I have an autocomplete dropdown that appears when a user starts typing in a textbox (I'm using jquery mobile but I don't think that's important to my problem). I want to be able to hide the whole dropdown list when a user clicks anywhere on the page. However, I don't want to hide the dropdown when a user actually clicks on the dropdown itself.
Is there a way I could catch the click event in order to know what was clicked?
Here's my blur function:
//hide autocomplete when dropdown is not clicked
$("#search-div input").blur(function () {
$("#autocomplete-list").hide();
});
I was thinking of somehow putting an if statement in my blur function. Here's my pseudo code:
if( dropdown clicked)
{
run code to take text from dropdown and place in textbox
}
else
{
hide dropdown
}
Would it be possible to know whether my dropdown is clicked or something else is clicked while in my blur function? When I debug my javascript I'm only seeing an event that's related to the textbox doing the blur()
Edit:
Here is a function I'm using to handle when the dropdown is clicked:
$( document).on( "click", "#autocomplete-list li", function() {
var selectedItem = event.target.innerHTML;
$(this).parent().parent().find('input').val(selectedItem);
$('#autocomplete-list').hide();
runSearchQuery();
});

You can listen for any click, not just a blur, and then check what the clicked element was. e.currentTarget gives you what was clicked.
var clickHandler = function(e) {
if ($(e.currentTarget).hasClass('dropdown')) {
// do nothing
} else {
// Make sure you unregister your event every
// time the dropdown is hidden.
$(window).off('click', clickHandler);
// hide
}
}
// When the dropdown comes down, register an event on the whole page.
$(window).on('click', clickHandler);

JavaScript Hide Element When Clicking Anywhere on Page

I have a sliding JS menu that opens when you click the noty_menu link, then closes when you click that link again. Is there a way to set it so that the menu closes when you click ANYWHERE on the page?
Here's the relevant code:
$('.noty_menu').click(function () {
$('ul.the_menu').slideToggle('medium');
});

You could catch a click on the body:
$('body').click(function() {
/* close menu */
});
But then in your menu click you have to prevent propagation of the click up to body. Otherwise the menu will open, the click will propagate up, and the menu will immediately close. return false; should suffice here:
$('.noty_menu').click(function () {
$('ul.the_menu').slideToggle('medium');
return false;
});
(You could also read in the event argument to the handler function like function(ev) { ... } and call ev.stopPropagation()).
You may also want to prevent clicks inside the menu from closing it:
$('ul.the_menu').click(function () {
return false;
});
Note that this solution comes with a caveat that any other click event that stops propagation will also prevent the menu close.

u can use
$('body').click(function(){
//ur code
});
to do this

You can check the entire document, however that includes clicks on the menu (if you have any spacing, this could annoy the user) by something like this:
var menu=$('ul.the_menu');
$(document).on('click',function(){
if(menu.height>0) {
menu.slideToggle('medium');
}
});

Exit dynamic popup by clicking outside of it?

I have a popup where i basically just dim the body giving it the lights out effect. I have a click handeler where if the body is clicked it will close the popup but my issue is the click handler stops all clicks even before the popup is opened. Does anyone know how i could do this so that clicking on a link before the popup is opened would go to the link but clicking one after the popup was opened would do my function and not click the link?
Heres what i use right now:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("body").click(function(){
var element=document.getElementById("game");
//yes i could use the jquery method for all of these but this works
element.width="650";
element.height="500";
element.style.position="relative";
$("body").fadeTo(3000,1.0);
}
return false;
})
});

You can actually add your "body" click handeler only after clicking your link/opening the popup. Then after clicking the "body" you may remove it again and restore the click handler for your link. "bind()" and "unbind()" will be handy.
K

Where's the jQuery? When you use jQuery, you use jQuery...
When you click on the body, you can check whether #game is visible or not and work with that:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('body').click(function(e){
if (!$('#game').is(':visible')) {
$('#game').width('650px');
$('#game').height('500px');
$('#game').css('position', 'relative');
$('body').fadeTo(3000, 1.0);
e.preventDefault();
return false;
}
});
});