OnMouseMove dragging, target wrongly intercepting events - javascript

I have target that should move around in it's parent, where that parent is clicked.
Some Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/GMerZ/
Some HTML:
<div id="rControl">
<p>R1 / R2</p>
<div class="widget">
<div class="target"></div>
</div>
</div>
Some jQuery via CoffeeScript:
rControl = $('#rControl')
widget = rControl.find '.widget'
target = rControl.find '.target'
clicked = no
widget
.mousedown =>
clicked = yes
.mouseup =>
clicked = no
.mousemove (e) =>
if clicked
target.css
top: "#{e.offsetY}px"
left: "#{e.offsetX}px"
Problem is the target jitters around as you drag. It seems to be that the first event places the widget under the cursor, and the second event occurs on the target and not the widget background, so the offset is now relative to the target, not the parent widget, and the offset values are much smaller. The target now incorrectly moves to the top left of the widget.
Clearly, the target should not be handling these events, and should not be providing click location info based on the target's position.
How can I make this work so that I get the mouse position relative to .widget on every firing of the event, regardless of whether or not the mouse is in the .target?
Also, I'd love to do this without rearranging the HTML forcing the target under the widget, there must be a tricky bit of event delegation magic I'm missing.

Just filter out mousemove calls to only act on the ones fired by widget:
Updated JS (just one small change to the mousemove if):
rControl = $('#rControl')
widget = rControl.find '.widget'
target = rControl.find '.target'
clicked = no
widget
.mousedown =>
clicked = yes
.mouseup =>
clicked = no
.mousemove (e) =>
if clicked and e.target == widget[0]
target.css
top: "#{e.offsetY}px"
left: "#{e.offsetX}px"
See on jsfiddle.

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Exclude element area from scroll listener

Created a movable element that opens/closes by click. It stores a list that will scroll.
let widget = document.getElementById("widget") // div wrapper
Added an event addEventListener("mousewheel") to close my element by scroll:
window.addEventListener("mousewheel", (event) => {
Plugin.prototype.widget.close() // close widget
})
It is necessary to achieve the result: the widget is closed everywhere along the scroll, except for the scroll in the widget itself, taking into account all child elements.
The following code defines the active scroll area:
window.addEventListener("mousewheel", (event) => {
if ( event.target !== widget ) { // isn't widget
Plugin.prototype.widget.close() // close widget
}
})
Is it possible to make a check to determine the element and all its children by scrolling?

Elements blocking div I'm trying to hover on?

Absolutely stumped here...
I have a dynamically generated list of divs. It goes through each of those divs and applies an event listen on hover. Inside each of those divs is some text, a H1, some body copy and a link. Unfortunately the trigger only fires if I hover on a bit of 'blank space' in the div where there's no text.
I've tried pointer-events:none which does fix the issue but doesn't solve an issue where I have a link. Essentially I just want the whole div to respond when hovered. I swear I've done this before?!
Here's a video demonstrating: Video Recording
Here's how my JS is set up (the projectsText is getting each project element)
projectsText.forEach(project => {
project.classList.remove("active")
})
event.target.classList.add("active")
}
const changeWorkImage = (event) => {
projects.forEach(image => {
if (image.id === event.target.id) {
workImage.style.backgroundImage = "url(" + image.heroImage + ")"
} else {
return
}
})
}
projectsText.forEach(project => {
project.addEventListener('mouseover', (event) => {
changeWorkImage(event)
changeActive(event)
})
})
And how my component is structured
<div className="project" id={id}>
<p className="company">{company}</p>
<h2 className="title">{title}</h2>
<LearnMore url={url} />
</div>
The mouseover event goes to one, and only one, event handler at a time. It gives priority starting with the innermost child (nested/z-index). If you move the cursor from a parent ("project") to one of its children ("title"), then the parent loses the focus of the mouseover event.
There is a similar event, mouseenter which ignore transitions within an element. In other words, it doesn't pay attention when you move the mouse over children elements, so it in effect works from the outside in. This may work better in your case. (The converse, mouseleave, can be used to detect when the mouse has left.)

HammerJS triggers click after dragend

I have a perfectly working hammerjs drag listener that captures drags just like I'd expect. But when you let go, right after the dragend is triggered, it then triggers a click event as well. So if you were clicking to drag (move) the target, and the cursor happened to be over a link, when you let go (drop), it triggers a click on the link, which I don't want.
Here's my code:
$('.draggable').hammer({
drag_min_distance: 0,
drag_max_touches: 2,
drag_lock_to_axis: true,
drag_lock_min_distance: 30
}).on('drag', handleMiddleEvent)
.on('dragstart', handleStartEvent)
.on('dragend', handleEndEvent);
If I console.log the event on all three handlers and console.log click events on all links, I get something like this in my console:
dragstart
dragmiddle
dragmiddle
dragmiddle
dragmiddle
dragend
click
I want to avoid the click at the end. I tried adding event.stopPropagation() to all of the handle methods, but to no avail.
Try using Hammer.js tap events instead of the click events on the links.
I had a pretty similar problem, and found some kind of workaround - I know it's dirty but the links are not being clicked by a drag. I want to drag a wrapper-div, which is my wrapper element seen in the js below. It has several links in it, wich are being clicked when the dragging stops above them, and i want to prevent that from happening.
First, i define a div that is on top of everything but set hidden in my html:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="linklist">
<-- Links etc in here-->
<div id="preventClick" style="visibility: hidden; position: absolute; width: 5000px; height: 6000px; "></div>
</div>
</div>
Then, in the hammer functions, the div is set to visible at a dragstart (in this case, a dragdown) - you just can't see it because it has no background-color or any content.
JS:
var wrapper = document.getElementById("wrapper");
Hammer(wrapper).on("dragdown", function() {
handleDragDown(); //call function that handles movement
var preventClick = document.getElementById("preventClick");
preventClick.style.visibility = 'visible';
});
Hammer(wrapper).on("dragend", function() {
var preventClick = document.getElementById("preventClick");
preventClick.style.visibility = 'hidden';
});
I know this is far from perfect and your post is from several months ago, but it worked for me. Hope i could help :)

Disable slideDown/Up on links inside div

Basicllay i have a div with a class called .li-level-1, and inside that i have differnt ul's with lists. i Have it set up so when you click on a li-level-1 div displays the ul's and li's inside that div by animating a drop down and when you click on the next one it closes the one previously opened and slidesDown the next one.
the only thing is the a links that are inside the div's seem to trigger the slideUp/Down on level-1 and animation as well.
any Suggestions?
$('.sitemap_page .li-level-1').each(function(){
$(this).find('ul.ul-level-2').hide();
$(this).click(function(){
var this_list = $(this);
this_list.parent().find('.open').each(function(){
$(this).slideUp(function(){
this_list.find('ul.ul-level-2').addClass("open").slideDown();
}).removeClass('open');
});
if(this_list.find('ul.ul-level-2.open').length == 0) {
this_list.find('ul.ul-level-2').addClass("open").slideDown();
}
});
});
That's because of event bubbling: the click event raised on the <a> elements bubble up to their containing <div> and cause your event handler to execute.
One way to work around that problem would be to use event.target to determine the event's origin, and only perform the sliding animations if the event did not originate on a link:
$(this).click(function(event) {
if (!$(event.target).is("a")) {
var this_list = $(this);
this_list.parent().find('.open').each(function() {
$(this).slideUp(function() {
this_list.find('ul.ul-level-2').addClass("open").slideDown();
}).removeClass('open');
});
if (this_list.find('ul.ul-level-2.open').length == 0) {
this_list.find('ul.ul-level-2').addClass("open").slideDown();
}
}
});
The problem is with event bubbling as sugested by Frederic. The other possible solution is to divide your div into title and content divs. Hold data in content and check click on title (not on the parent list). This means rebuilding the handler but the code will be clearer and it won't depend on event.target.

Internet Explorer and <select> tag problem

I am having the following problem under Internet Explorer 7/8:
I have a popup that gets activated when user mouseover a link. The popup is a simple <div> that contains some data. Inside this <div> tag there is a <select> tag with some <option>s. I have attached mouseover/mouseout events to the <div>, so that this popup will stay open while cursor is over it. The problem comes when you click on the <select> and then move the cursor over any of the <option>s. This triggers the mouseout event of the <div> tag and respectively closes it.
How can I prevent the closing of the popup in IE ?
You should be able to detect if the situation is the one you want just with the values off the event. It is a little convoluted but it seems to work.
In the event handler of your outer div, do something like this:
<div onmouseover="if (isReal()) { toggle(); }"
onmouseout="if (isReal()) { toggle(); }">
</div>
Then implement the isReal method:
function isReal() {
var evt = window.event;
if (!evt) {
return true;
}
var el;
if (evt.type === "mouseout") {
el = evt.toElement;
} else if (evt.type === "mouseover") {
el = evt.fromElement;
}
if (!el) {
return false;
}
while (el) {
if (el === evt.srcElement) {
return false;
}
el = el.parentNode;
}
return true;
}
Basically the isReal method just detects if the event was coming from within the div. If so, then it returns false which avoids calling the hide toggle.
My suggestion would be to set another flag while the select box has focus. Do not close the div while the flag is set.
How about re-showing the div when the mouse is over the <options>s through mouseover events of <options>s.
Edit: execution order of mouseover of option and mouseout of div might cause problems though.
In the mouseout event for the div add a timeout to the div element that will hide the div in 200 milliseconds or so.
Then in the mouseover event for the div/select and the click event of the select clear the timeout stored in the div element.
This gives a very slight delay before hiding the div that allows the mouseover or click events to clear the timeout before it is executed. It's not pretty but it should work.
instead of using mouseout as the event to close the div, use mouseleave, then the event will only be triggered when the pointer leaves the boundary of the div, not when it moves onto other elements within it
you could try adding another mouseover event specifically for the options list.
Well, the reason for this behavior is because the mouseover/out events bubble, which effectively means that whenever you mouseover any of the elements inside the popup, the popup receives the event also.
You can read more here about these events, and here about event bubbling.
You have 3 possible solutions here:
Change the events to onmouseenter/leave. You've mentioned that this didn't help, which just sounds plain odd, since these aren't supposed to bubble.
Check srcElement in relation to from/toElement in the event.
An improved version of McKAMEY's check would be:
function isReal() {
var evt = window.event;
if (!evt) {
return true;
}
var el;
if (evt.type === "mouseout") {
el = evt.toElement;
} else if (evt.type === "mouseover") {
el = evt.fromElement;
}
if (!el) {
return false;
}
// this will also return true if el == evt.srcElement
return evt.srcElement.contains(el);
}
Does the same thing, just shorter.
3 . Another option would be to create a transparent, invisible div just under your popup that covers the area that the select box drops down into. I'm assuming that it's dropping outside the actual area of the popup.
Hope this helps!
have you tried hover instead of mouseover/out effects?
$(".myDiv").hover(function(){
$(this).show();
}, function {
$(this).hide();
});
What about something like this:
<div id="trigger">
Hover over me!
</div>
<div class="container">
<select>
<option>Blah</option>
<option>Blah</option>
</select>
</div>
$("#trigger").mouseover(function(){
$('.container).show();
});
$(".container").mouseleave(function(){
$(this).hide();
});
The basic idea is that you show the container element when you hover over the trigger then when you leave the container you hide the container. You'd need to position the container so it clipped the trigger element, otherwise it would hide straight away.
Why have mouseover / mouseout on the <div>? Why not just show the <div> on the mouse over, then set <body onmouseover="hidedivs();"> I don't know if this would work, but if the <div> is on top of the body, then the <div> should stay visible.
Many people posting solutions/examples do not seem to realize one thing: onmouseout event on <div> fires before onmouseover event on <select>.
When <div> loses focus (onmouseout) do not close it immediately, but after say, 500 milliseconds. If during this time <select> gets focus (mouseover) do not close <div> at all (clearTimeout).
Also, try to play with event propagation/bubling.
Given that selects in IE are a pain, especially when it comes to the whole layering issue where a select appears above a div even though it shouldn't, can I point you in the direction of YUI's Menu button controls. They look really nice, are easy to implement and won't cause this issue
Here is a link: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/button/btn_example07.html
You should use event.stopPropagation() while in <select>, or cancelBubble() in <select> element itself.

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