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On button click display list items, dropdown list should not hide until button is clicked again

I have looked everywhere possible as I am trying to develop a drop down button, but instead of options then the buttons display unordered list items, but when a user click off the button the the button does not close, but in order to close the button, then the button needs to be click again.
Down below you will find the way the button is when not clicked and the way the button appears when it has been clicked.
If you also go to the following website you will see an example of the button in action by click "See our list of websites"
Button on a website for example
Any help would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance.

Here you go, key functions I used;
.click() for the a tag or the link, the function inside the .click() will be called.
.slideToggle() the ul after the click, this would hide or show the target element depending on its state.
Then add positon:absolute to the ul so that it wouldn't affect inline elements.
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".toggle-button").click(function() {
$(this).parent().find("ul").slideToggle(function() {
// Animation complete.
});
});
})
.links-unordered {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
}
.links-unordered {
margin-top: 20px;
min-height: 30px;
}
.links-unordered .toggle-button {
text-decoration: none;
padding: 12px 16px 12px 16px;
transition: 0.2s;
border: 1px solid black;
}
.links-unordered .toggle-button:hover,
.links-unordered .toggle-button:active,
.links-unordered .toggle-button:focus,
.links-unordered .toggle-button:visited {
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
}
.links-unordered .toggle-button:hover {
border-width: 2px;
}
.links-unordered ul {
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
margin-top: 25px;
padding-inline-start: 20px;
}
.links-unordered ul li {
line-height: 25px;
padding-left: 15px;
}
.links-unordered a {
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="links-unordered">
<a class="toggle-button" href="#">SEE OUR LIST OF WEBSITES</a>
<ul style="display:none;">
<li>cdn.sc.rockstargames.com</li>
<li>lifeinvader.com</li>
<li>rockstargames.com</li>
<li>socialclub.rockstargames.com</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="links-unordered">
<a class="toggle-button" href="#">SEE OUR LIST OF WEBSITES</a>
<ul style="display:none;">
<li>cdn.sc.rockstargames.com</li>
<li>lifeinvader.com</li>
<li>rockstargames.com</li>
<li>socialclub.rockstargames.com</li>
</ul>
</div>

I'm not sure if I understand what you want. But here's a sample of what you asked, a button that when you click, show a list. And when you click on an item, the list goes out and you have the item. Hope this helps you. It's a simple code, but if you have questions, go ahead and ask!!
function closeList(e) {
var site = e.target.innerText;
alert(site + ' clicked!!');
document.querySelector('#dvSites').style.display = 'none';
}
function showList() {
var dvSites = document.querySelector('#dvSites');
if (dvSites.style.display === '')
return; // already visible
dvSites.style.display = '';
}
// Add eventListener to close the div
var lis = document.querySelector('#dvSites').querySelectorAll('li');
for(var i = 0; i < lis.length; i++) {
lis[i].addEventListener('click', closeList);
}
// Add eventListener to open the div
document.querySelector('#btnShow').addEventListener('click', showList);
<button id="btnShow">Show sites!!</button>
<div id="dvSites" style="display: none">
<ul>
<li>stackoverflow.com</li>
<li>www.google.com</li>
<li>www.sipmann.com</li> <!-- :) -->
</ul>
</div>

Overriding border styles in CSS

I have a three types of boxes being displayed in the image (2,3, and 4)
The first element is the selected style of a box.
I would like to apply this selected style on the other three.
For 2 it is straight forward. The gray goes to black.
For 3 I would need to replace the dashed with a solid line.
For 4 I would replace the gray with the black, but I would want to keep the image.
However I am trying to understand how it would work with inheritance in CSS. I am just adding a class 'active' to mark it as selected. It works fine for 2, but for 3 and 4 it does not know how to process the order of class names. I cannot remove the classes of the elements, because obviously I want to cascade the changes through (like the image in option 4).
My CSS looks like this :
li {
padding: 0.125rem;
margin: 0.4375rem 1.0625rem 0.3125rem 0;
border: 0.0625rem solid #d9d9d9;
}
li.active {
border: 0.0625rem solid black;
}
li.sold {
display: inline-block;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
background: url(http://i.piccy.info/i7/c7a432fe0beb98a3a66f5b423b430423/1-5-1789/1066503/lol.png);
background-size: 100% 100%;
}
li.wait-list {
display: inline-block;
border: 1px dashed #ccc;
}
I have demonstrated this in a JSFiddle :
https://jsfiddle.net/561aLm4z/7/
It's probably an obvious question, but how do I get the 'active' style to overwrite the styles on box 3 and 4?

Overwrite the background and border and move the css to the bottom, or make the css more specific (read more about css specifity) (by adding ul)
add1 = false
add2 = false
add3 = false
add4 = false
$("#2").click(
function() {
if (!add2) {
$("#2").addClass("active")
add2 = true;
} else {
$("#2").removeClass("active")
add2 = false;
}
}
)
$("#3").click(
function() {
if (!add3) {
$("#3").addClass("active")
add3 = true;
} else {
$("#3").removeClass("active")
add3 = false;
}
}
)
$("#4").click(
function() {
if (!add4) {
$("#4").addClass("active")
add4 = true;
} else {
$("#4").removeClass("active")
add4 = false;
}
}
)
li {
padding: 0.125rem;
margin: 0.4375rem 1.0625rem 0.3125rem 0;
border: 0.0625rem solid #d9d9d9;
}
li.sold {
display: inline-block;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
background: url(http://i.piccy.info/i7/c7a432fe0beb98a3a66f5b423b430423/1-5-1789/1066503/lol.png);
background-size: 100% 100%;
}
li.wait-list {
display: inline-block;
border: 1px dashed #ccc;
}
ul li.active {
border: 0.0625rem solid black;
background: none;
border: 1px solid black;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul class="hse-product-variant ">
<li id="1" style="display: inline-block;" class="active">
1
</li>
<li id="2" style="display: inline-block;" class="">
2
</li>
<li id="3" style="display: inline-block;" class="wait-list">
3
</li>
<li id="4" style="display: inline-block;" class="sold">
4
</li>
</ul>

The issue you are having is called 'specificity' and is best explained by the blog post commonly known as 'specificity wars'.
In a nutshell, each element has a specificity value.
Elements, like li have a value of 1.
Classes, like .sold have a specificity of 10.
IDs, like #box have a specificity of 100.
By combining these values, you can overwrite less specific items.
The order of the rules also change the specificity. If you have two items with a matching specificity score, the later of the two will shine through.
As such, you can overwrite your li.sold rule (score of 11) by adding a li.sold.selected rule (score of 21).
You can also involve parent element ids to increase specificity. For example:
div.man (score of 11)
#house div.man (score of 111)
#London #house div.man (score of 211)
This is the basics of specificity. I recommend you read the article also - which puts the concept in terms of StarWars, which is always appreciated.

Side panel to close when I close anywhere outside it

I have left panel which slides in as I press the menu button (it is a mobile version). When the left panel slides in, I want it to close when I click anywhere else except the left panel itself. The jquery I made is this:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.menu').click( function() {
if ($('.sidemenuu').hasClass('hidden')) {
$('.sidemenuu').animate({left:"0%"},255);
$('.sidemenuu').removeClass('hidden');
return true;
}
else {
if($('.sidemenuu').css("left","0")){
alert('jkk');
$('html').click(function() {
$('.sidemenuu').animate({left:"-80%"},255);
});
}
$('.sidemenuu').addClass('hidden');
$('.sidemenuu').animate({left:"-80%"},255);
}
});
$('.close').click(function(){
$('.sidemenuu').animate({left:"-80%"},255).addClass('hidden');
//$('.sidemenuu').addClass('hidden');
});
$('.sidemenuu').click(function(e){
});
});
html:
<div class="sidemenuu hidden">
<div class="close"></div>
<div class="over-y-auto">
<div data-role="content">
<div id="getVerificationSearchList" >
<button onClick="getVerificationSearchList()">Verification Data</button>
</div>
<div id="getNewHomeLoan" >
<button onClick="getNewHomeLoan()">New Home Loan</button>
</div>
<div id="getNewLoan" >
<button onClick="getNewLoan()">New Loan</button>
</div>
<div id="getContactRecording" >
<button onClick="getContactRecording()">Contact Recording</button>
</div>
<div id="getCPU" >
<button onClick="getCPU()">CPU</button>
</div>
<div id="getphotoupload" >
<button onClick="getimageupload()">Photo Upload List</button>
</div>
<div id="getdocumentupload" >
<button onClick="getdocumentupload()">Document Upload List</button>
</div>
<div id="getreceiptupload" >
<button onClick="getreceiptupload()">Receipt List</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
css:
.sidemenuu{ background-color: #181818;
height: 100%; left: -40%;
position: relative;
box-shadow: 9px 0 10px #303030;
position: fixed;
border-right: solid 1px #444;
padding: 1%;
width: 75%;
left: -80%;
z-index: 10;}
.over-y-auto{ overflow-y: auto; height: 100%;}
.sidemenuu button{ background-color: #141414;
border-bottom: solid 1px #000 !important;
border-left: 0;
border-right: 0;
border-top: solid 1px #171717 !important;
color: #565656;
height: 55px;
width: 98%;
font-size: 18px;
}
.sidemenuu button:hover{ background-color: #202020; box-shadow: 0 0 7px #000 inset;}
.close { background: url("img/close.png") no-repeat scroll center 5px #252525;
border: solid 1px #333;
border-radius: 4px;
cursor: pointer;
height: 40px;
margin: 0 auto 19px;
padding: 0;
width: 73px;
}
.menu{ cursor: pointer; left: 0;
position: absolute;}
fiddle is here: http://jsfiddle.net/cLJVV/

This is a fairly common and potentially tricky problem. You'd like to bind to any click 'outside' your element, but DOM events don't work that way. Every click is inside something, and that's what's going to receive the event and bubble it up the DOM.
So, the way to solve this is to listen to clicks on the document itself, and check whether those clicks are inside the element you want to detect clicks outside of (your sidebar). If the clicks made it all the way to the document without passing through your element, they are outside. The simplest function to check for that would look like this:
var openSidebar = function(){
$('.sidemenuu').removeClass('hidden').animate({left:"0%"},255);
}
var closeSidebar = function(){
$('.sidemenuu').addClass('hidden').animate({left:"-80%"},255);
}
$('.menu').click( function(event) {
event.stopPropagation();
openSidebar();
});
$(document).click( function(event){
if ( !$(event.target).closest('.sidemenu').length ) {
closeSidebar();
}
});
See updated fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/cLJVV/2/
Note one really important thing: in the .menu click function, the first line is calling event.stopPropagation(). This call stops the event from continuing to bubble up to the root of the document.
Recall that the click binding on the document is going to catch all clicks, and any clicks that didn't originate inside your side menu element will call the function to close it. So, if you have an element that is outside and you don't want that element to trigger your sidemenu to close, you need to stop propagation of clicks on that element. In this case, that's what I did to the menu button on your fiddle.
Hope this helps!

Why not use the focusout event handler.
The focusout event is sent to an element when it, or any element inside of it, loses focus. This is distinct from the blur event in that it supports detecting the loss of focus on descendant elements (in other words, it supports event bubbling).
Example:
$('.close').click(function () {
$('.sidemenuu').animate({
left: "-80%"
}, 255).addClass('hidden');
//$('.sidemenuu').addClass('hidden');
});
$('.sidemenuu').focusout()(function () {
$('.sidemenuu').animate({
left: "-80%"
}, 255).addClass('hidden');
//$('.sidemenuu').addClass('hidden');
});
You can also use a separate function for both as they do the same thing.
Example:
$('.close').on( "click", closeSidemenu )
$('.sidemenuu').on( "focusout", closeSidemenu )
function closeSidemenu() {
$('.sidemenuu').animate({
left: "-80%"
}, 255).addClass('hidden');
//$('.sidemenuu').addClass('hidden');
}
Either way is valid, but the second one is easier to maintain, requires less code, and is easier to troubleshoot.

Advice about my jQuery script + compatibility with iDevices

I posted a question about a script but I have another question about another script.
I have two blue buttons at the beginning that turn gray on a roll-over.
Blue becomes (and remains) gray when you click on one of the two buttons.
Both buttons must not be blue both. Each button brings up a form at a time (form contact and form quotation).
I have wrote this and I would to know if I can simplify it ?
How to make the "toggle" function compatible with iDevices (iPad, iPhone...) ?
Thank you in advance.
$(function() {
$("#form-contact").hide();
$("#form-devis").hide();
$("#btn-contact").click(function(){
$(this).toggleClass("btn-form-hover");
$("#form-contact").fadeToggle(500, "linear");
$("#form-devis").hide();
$("#btn-devis").removeClass("btn-form-hover");
});
$("#btn-devis").click(function(){
$(this).toggleClass("btn-form-hover");
$("#form-devis").fadeToggle(500, "linear");
$("#form-contact").hide();
$("#btn-contact").removeClass("btn-form-hover");
});
});

This looks about as simple as you can get for forcing only one button to have the "selected" state. If you need to do this for many elements, see my code below.
Toggle should work on iDevices as long as the jQuery library you included supports it. However, you will not get a hover effect on iDevices since there is no mouse.
Code Example:
If you plan to do this frequently with buttons (rocker switches) where only one element can have the "selected" state you could make a function like this:
CodePen: http://codepen.io/Skrypt/pen/dyCha
HTML
<div class="rockerSwitch myRocker1">
<button class="left">On</button><button class="right">Off</button>
</div>
<div class="rockerSwitch myRocker2">
<button class="left">True</button><button class="right">False</button>
</div>
<div class="rockerSwitch myRocker3">
<button class="left">Option 1</button><button class="right">Option 2</button>
</div>
CSS
.rockerSwitch button {
background-color: #dcffb2;
border: 1px solid #87cf30;
cursor: pointer;
outline: 0;
}
.rockerSwitch button.left {
margin-right: 0px;
border-radius: 5px 0px 0px 5px;
}
.rockerSwitch button.right {
margin-left: 0px;
border-radius: 0px 5px 5px 0px;
}
.rockerSwitch button:hover {
background-color: #fff;
}
.rockerSwitch button.selected {
background-color: #87cf30;
}
JS/jQuery
$(function() {
$('.myRocker1').rockerSwitch();
$('.myRocker2').rockerSwitch();
$('.myRocker3').rockerSwitch();
});
$.fn.rockerSwitch = function() {
var left = $('.left', this);
var right = $('.right', this);
left.on('click', function() {
left.addClass("selected");
right.removeClass("selected");
});
right.on('click', function() {
right.addClass("selected");
left.removeClass("selected");
});
}

Enable hover when the checkbox is not selected & disable it once the checkbox is selected

I'm trying to enable hover (adding '.add_link_twitter_hover' class) when the checkbox is not selected & disable it (removing the '.add_link_twitter_hover' class) once the checkbox is selected the same way Pinterest does it for Twitter/Facebook checkboxes when a user adds a pin:
I tried this, but it doesn't disable hover (doesn't remove '.add_link_twitter_hover' class) once mouse pointer is away:
var hoverTwitter = "add_link_twitter_hover";
$(postTwitter + " input").click(function(e) {
$(this).parent().removeClass(hoverTwitter);
$(this).parent().toggleClass(activePostTwitter);
});
$("label.add_link_twitter").hover(function(e) {
if($("input.publish_to_twitter").is(":checked")) {
$(this).removeClass(hoverTwitter);
return;
}
$(this).addClass(hoverTwitter);
});
Any idea how to enable hover when the checkbox is not selected & disable it once the checkbox is selected? Thanks in advance!
Here's the jQuery:
var postTwitter = ".add_link_twitter";
var activePostTwitter = "active";
$(postTwitter + " input").click(function(e) {
$(this).parent().toggleClass(activePostTwitter);
});
Here's the html:
<label class="add_link_twitter">
<input type="checkbox" name="publish_to_twitter" class="publish_to_twitter"><span>Share on Twitter</span>
</label>
Here's the css:
.add_link_twitter{
position:absolute;
left:15px;
bottom:16px;
color: #a19486;
border: 2px solid transparent;
border-color: #F0EDE8;
border-radius: 4px;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: bold;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 7px;
padding-top: 5px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
}
.active {
border-color: #468BD0;
color: #468BD0;
background-color: whiteSmoke;
}
.add_link_twitter_hover
{
color: #A19486;
border: 2px solid transparent;
border-color: #C2B1A2;
border-radius: 4px;
background-color: white;
padding: 7px;
padding-top: 5px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
}

Try this:
$("label.add_link_twitter").hover(function(e) {
if(!$("input.publish_to_twitter").is(":checked"))
$(this).addClass(hoverTwitter);
}, function() {
$(this).removeClass(hoverTwitter);
});
The usual way to use the .hover() method is to supply two functions: the first is called when the mouse moves over the element in question, and the second is called when the mouse moves out.
So what I've done above is in the first function (mouseenter) I've added your class if the checkbox is not checked. In the second function (mouseleave) I just remove the class.

This can be done without any javascript at all. if you expect to always have the class "publish_to_twitter", just separate the two states with pseudoclasses:
.publish_to_twitter:hover{
width:50px;
}
input.publish_to_twitter:checked{
width:500px;
}
I added the input element in the selector to ensure that the checked style took precedence. Just make sure that for every style you set with :hover, you have an equivalent style in :checked.