jQuery Close DIV By Clicking Anywhere On Page

Question

I would like to open email-signup when I click on email-signup-link. Then I would like to close it by clicking anywhere on the page except for the

Answer 1

The way I've often seen this done is by overlaying the page behind the form with a div (greyed out usually). With that, you could use:

$("#greydiv")..click(function() {
    $("#email-signup").hide();
    $("#greydiv").hide();
});

...or something simliar.

Answer 2

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();
    });
});

as referenced in another stackoverflow post...

Answer 3

$(":not(#email-signup)").click(function() {
     $("#email-signup").hide();
});

Although you'd be better off having some kind of an overlay behind the popup and binding the above click event to that only.

Answer 4

$(document).click (function (e) {
    if (e.target != $('#email-signup')[0]) {
        $('#email-signup').hide();
    }
});

Answer 5

Two things. You don't actually have e defined, so you can't use it. And you need stopPropagation in your other click handler as well:

$('#email-signup').click(function(e){
    e.stopPropagation();
});
$("#email-signup-link").click(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    e.stopPropagation();
    $('#email-signup').show();
});
$(document).click(function() {
    $('#email-signup').hide();
});​

http://jsfiddle.net/Nczpb/