Close the dialog box on background click

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I have a jQuery UI Dialog that gets displayed when specific elements are clicked. I would like to close the dialog if a click occurs anywhere other than on those triggering elements or the dialog itself.

JavaScript

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/jquery-ui.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
        function deselect(e) {
            $('.pop').slideFadeToggle(function () {
                e.removeClass('selected');
            });
        }

        $(function () {
            $('#contact').on('click', function () {
                if ($(this).hasClass('selected')) {
                    deselect($(this));
                } else {
                    $(this).addClass('selected');
                    $('.pop').slideFadeToggle();
                }
                return false;
            });

            $('.close').on('click', function () {
                deselect($('#contact'));
                return false;
            });

        });

        $.fn.slideFadeToggle = function (easing, callback) {
            return this.animate({ opacity: 'toggle', height: 'toggle' }, 'fast', easing, callback);
        };
</script>

Posted 1-Feb-15 1:21am

Harshit Wadhera

Updated 1-Feb-15 1:41am

Kenneth Haugland

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Grant Weatherston · Answer 1 · 2015-02-02T06:31:00

your way looks ok, using hasClass or check for $(event.target).is(input) or something, where you'd check whatever you want / dont want to be clicked, before running the toggle command.

or hook up the escape button:

JavaScript

$(document).on('keyup',function(e){
    if(e.keyCode == 27){
      $('#dialog').slideFadeToggle();
    }
 });