Question

I’m trying to create a basic modal myself and I’m having a little bit trouble here (maybe it’s because I’m an expert working with jQuery – don’t take it seriously).

I have this HMTL markup:

<div id="modal-boxes">
    <div id="modal-updates" class="modal-content">
        Content for modal box here.
        <a href="#" class="close-modal">Close</a>
    </div>
</div>
<div id="modal-mask"></div>

So, I made a function that tells the modal box to close and to make disappear the #mask div. And another one to when I click outside of it, it closes anyway. In other words, clicking outside the #modal-updates div is the same that clicking on close button. But the problem is that when I want to click inside the #modal-updates div (should not disappear) it closes anyway. Here is my javascript code:

$(".modal").click(function(e){

    e.preventDefault(); // Cancel the default link behavior

    $("#modal-mask").fadeTo(400, 0.4);
    $("#modal-boxes").fadeIn();

    var getName = "#" + $(this).attr("name");
    $(getName).fadeTo(400, 1);
});

function closeModal() {
    $("#modal-mask, #modal-boxes").fadeOut();
}

$(".close-modal").click(function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
    closeModal();
});

$(".modal-content").click(function(){
    closeModal();
});

Any help?

Regards, Tiago Castro

Answer 1

Try:

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

If done right, this will stop $("#modal-boxes").click() from triggering.

[edit] fixed a typo and added link to jsFiddle with it working