jQuery Stop .blur() event when clicking “submit” button

Question

I am building a small landing page with a simple demo e-mail signup form. I want to have the form field open up when focused, and then shrink back down on blur.

However

Answer 1

why not rely on submit event instead of click? http://jsbin.com/ehujup/5/edit

just couple changes into the html and js

wrap inputs into the form and add required for email as it obviously suppose to be

in js, remove handler which listen #submitbtn

$("#submitbtn").on("click", function(e){
  e.stopImmediatePropagation();
  $("#signup").fadeOut(220);
});

and use instead submit form listerer

$("#form").on("submit", function(e){
  $("#signup").fadeOut(220);
  return false;
});

you may use $.ajax() to make it even better.

Doing this you gain point in terms of validation and the native browser's HTML5 validator will make check email format where it is supported.