Use jQuery to hide a DIV when the user clicks outside of it

Question

I am using this code:

$(\'body\').click(function() {
   $(\'.form_wrapper\').hide();
});

$(\'.form_wrapper\').click(function(event){
   event.stopPropagatio         


        

Answer 1

So many answers, must be a right of passage to have added one... I didn't see a current (jQuery 3.1.1) answers - so:

$(function() {
    $('body').on('mouseup', function() {
        $('#your-selector').hide();
    });
});

Answer 2

if you have trouble with ios, mouseup is not working on apple device.

does mousedown /mouseup in jquery work for the ipad?

i use this:

$(document).bind('touchend', function(e) {
        var container = $("YOURCONTAINER");

          if (container.has(e.target).length === 0)
          {
              container.hide();
          }
      });

Answer 3

Attach a click event to top level elements outside the form wrapper, for example:

$('#header, #content, #footer').click(function(){
    $('.form_wrapper').hide();
});

This will also work on touch devices, just make sure you don't include a parent of .form_wrapper in your list of selectors.

Answer 4

You'd better go with something like this:

var mouse_is_inside = false;

$(document).ready(function()
{
    $('.form_content').hover(function(){ 
        mouse_is_inside=true; 
    }, function(){ 
        mouse_is_inside=false; 
    });

    $("body").mouseup(function(){ 
        if(! mouse_is_inside) $('.form_wrapper').hide();
    });
});

Answer 5

And for Touch devices like IPAD and IPHONE we can use following code

$(document).on('touchstart', function (event) {
var container = $("YOUR CONTAINER SELECTOR");

if (!container.is(e.target) // if the target of the click isn't the container...
&& container.has(e.target).length === 0) // ... nor a descendant of the container
    {
        container.hide();
    }
});

Answer 6

This code detects any click event on the page and then hides the #CONTAINER element if and only if the element clicked was neither the #CONTAINER element nor one of its descendants.

$(document).on('click', function (e) {
    if ($(e.target).closest("#CONTAINER").length === 0) {
        $("#CONTAINER").hide();
    }
});