30-seconds-of-code/snippets/onClickOutside.md

title, tags, expertise, author, firstSeen, lastUpdated

title	tags	expertise	author	firstSeen	lastUpdated
Handle click outside	browser,event	intermediate	chalarangelo	2021-01-06T13:57:56+02:00	2021-01-06T13:57:56+02:00

Runs the callback whenever the user clicks outside of the specified element.

• Use EventTarget.addEventListener() to listen for 'click' events.
• Use Node.contains() to check if Event.target is a descendant of element and run callback if not.

const onClickOutside = (element, callback) => {
  document.addEventListener('click', e => {
    if (!element.contains(e.target)) callback();
  });
};

onClickOutside('#my-element', () => console.log('Hello'));
// Will log 'Hello' whenever the user clicks outside of #my-element