Dismiss BlockUI on click outside element

Question

I'm using BlockUI block a page. The element used by BlockUI covers the lower half of the page. Although I have a close button on the element, which works just fine, I alos need to unblock if there is a click in the are above my element. Is this possible?

Answer 1

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I have come across a similar need before. You will need to know the layer that the BlockUI is on. I will assume that it has a z-index of 10. What you are going to want to do here is set an invisible layer beneath it and then attach a click event there which will tie into the close event already on your blockui element.

.clr{
 position:fixed;
 width:100%;
 height:100%;
 z-index:5;
 top:0;
 left:0;
 bottom:0;
 right:0;
}