Open div on element click , close on body OR element click Mootools

Question

I made this fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/nAb6N/10/

As you can see I have 2 animators , a element and body class, I am adding class to body after the first click on a element but once I click on body is not closing it. If I define animators as

 var animators = $$('#opendiv,body');

it works ok except that I do not want the div to open on body click. I need it to close on body click.

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Right. Seems as if you really require an outerClick pattern to close. Here's the one that is most notably used within mootools devs, allowing you to create a custom event, based on click:

Element.Events.outerClick = {
    base : 'click',
    condition : function(event){
        event.stopPropagation();
        return false;
    },
    onAdd : function(fn){
        this.getDocument().addEvent('click', fn);
    },
    onRemove : function(fn){
        this.getDocument().removeEvent('click', fn);
    }
};

The way it works is: it is based on a normal click. upon adding, it adds the callback as a click event on the document. when a click happens within the element itself,it stops bubbling via event.stopPropagation();, else, it will bubble and the callback will run.

here's how it ties together after the above:

http://jsfiddle.net/dimitar/nAb6N/13/

(function() {
    var opener = $('opendiv');
    var boxtoopen = $('box');

    boxtoopen.set('morph', {
        duration: 700,
        transition: 'bounce:out'
    });

    boxtoopen.addEvent('outerClick', function(event) {
        boxtoopen.morph(".openOff");
        opener.removeClass("hide");
    });

    opener.addEvent('click', function(e) {
        e.stop();
        boxtoopen.morph(".openOn");    
        this.addClass("hide");
    });

})();

I have also 'outsourced' the morph properties to the CSS as it makes more sense, semantically.

P.S. note that you need mootools 1.4.3 or 1.4.5, but not 1.4.4 as there's a morph bug to do with units in that release. the jsfiddle above uses 1.4.6 (mootools edge).