6 jQuery Click Outside Event Plugins

Web today is focusing more on click events than hovers, a new set of challenges for front-end web stars. In this post, you will see a collection of 6 jQuery Click Outside plugins. With these plugins you can now easily show an element when clicking on a trigger and hiding it again, and trigger stuff. ;)

1. jQuery outside events

With this plugin you can bind to an event that will be triggered only when a specific “originating” event occurs outside the element in question. Also, if an outside event hasn’t been provided by default, you can easily define your own.

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2. clickoutside jQuery plugin

A small plugin to jQuery that adds the event of clicking outside an element. You know sometimes you should close some modal windows when clicking outside. It’s really simple and small.

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3. jQuery-Clickout

jQuery plugin for to track clicks outside of an element.

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4. Close dropdowns by clicking outside of them with jQuery

It’s relatively easy with jQuery to show an element when clicking on a trigger and hiding it again using the .toggle method..

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5. jQuery: Click and/or focus outside & -webkit-tap-highlight-color

A better way to detect focus/click outside of a target element..

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6. How to hide a DOM popup clicking outside

Now I want to explain a useful feature, close a popup clicking outside the element.

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