How can I detect a click outside my element? I'm using Vue.js so it's gonna be outside my templates element. I know how to do it in Vanilla JS, but I'm not sure if there's a more proper way to do it, when I'm using Vue.js?
This is the solution for Vanilla JS: Javascript Detect Click event outside of div
I guess I can use a better way to access the element?
There is the solution I used, which is based on Linus Borg answer and works fine with vue.js 2.0.
Vue.directive('click-outside', {
bind: function (el, binding, vnode) {
el.clickOutsideEvent = function (event) {
// here I check that click was outside the el and his children
if (!(el == event.target || el.contains(event.target))) {
// and if it did, call method provided in attribute value
vnode.context[binding.expression](event);
}
};
document.body.addEventListener('click', el.clickOutsideEvent)
},
unbind: function (el) {
document.body.removeEventListener('click', el.clickOutsideEvent)
},
});
You bind to it using v-click-outside
:
<div v-click-outside="doStuff">
You can find some more info about custom directives and what el, binding, vnode means in https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/custom-directive.html#Directive-Hook-Arguments