How to close a modal by clicking outside the modal window?

Question

In a very simple jQuery modal, I close the modal by clicking on CLOSE as

$(\'#close\').click(function(e) {
  e.preventDefault();
  $(\'#overlay, #alertModalO         


        

Answer 1

I found it helpful to include:

$('.item-modal').click(function(e) {
  e.stopPropagation();
});