How to close on outside click in EJ2 JavaScript Dialog

4 Sep 20264 minutes to read

By default, the Dialog can be closed by pressing the Esc key and clicking the close icon on the right of the Dialog header. It can also be closed by clicking outside of the Dialog using the hide method. Set the closeOnEscape property value to false to prevent closing of the Dialog when pressing the Esc key.

In the following sample, the Dialog is closed when clicking outside the Dialog area using the hide method. A document.onclick handler checks the clicked target’s id and calls hide when the click occurs on the #target container.

In the following sample, dialog is closed when clicking outside the dialog area using hide method.

import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { Button } from '@syncfusion/ej2-buttons';
import { Dialog } from '@syncfusion/ej2-popups';

let dialogObj: Dialog = new Dialog({
    header: 'Delete Multiple Items',
    content: "Are you sure you want to permanently delete all of these items?",
    showCloseIcon: true,
    buttons: [{ buttonModel: { isPrimary: true, content: 'Yes' }, click: btnClick }, { buttonModel: { content: 'No' }, click: btnClick }],
    target: document.body,
    height: 'auto',
    width: '300px',
    animationSettings: { effect: 'Zoom' },
    closeOnEscape: true
});
dialogObj.appendTo('#dialog');

document.getElementById('openBtn').onclick = (): void => {
    dialogObj.show();
};

function btnClick() {
    dialogObj.hide();
}

document.onclick = (args: any) : void => {
  if(args.target.id === 'target') {
      dialogObj.hide();
  }
}
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
    <title>Essential JS 2 Dialog</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="TypeScript UI Components">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/34.2.2/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/34.2.2/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/34.2.2/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/34.2.2/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/34.2.2/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body class="close-dialog">
    
    <div id="container">
        <div id="target" class="close-dialog">
            <center><button id="openBtn" class="e-control e-btn">Open</button></center>
            <div id="dialog"> </div>
        </div> 
    </div>

<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
  ele.style.visibility = "visible";
}   
      </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>