The client has given me a design which has a Select Option menu containing a checkbox together with the item name as individual items in the list. Is there anyway possible t
Alternate Vanilla JS version with click outside to hide checkboxes:
let expanded = false;
const multiSelect = document.querySelector('.multiselect');
multiSelect.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
const checkboxes = document.getElementById("checkboxes");
if (!expanded) {
checkboxes.style.display = "block";
expanded = true;
} else {
checkboxes.style.display = "none";
expanded = false;
}
e.stopPropagation();
}, true)
document.addEventListener('click', function(e){
if (expanded) {
checkboxes.style.display = "none";
expanded = false;
}
}, false)
I'm using addEventListener instead of onClick in order to take advantage of the capture/bubbling phase options along with stopPropagation(). You can read more about the capture/bubbling here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventTarget/addEventListener
The rest of the code matches vitfo's original answer (but no need for onclick() in the html). A couple of people have requested this functionality sans jQuery.
Here's codepen example https://codepen.io/davidysoards/pen/QXYYYa?editors=1010