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CKEditor: Escape editor focus from inline editor via JS (without requiring mouse click)?

I'm working on a note-taking app that uses CKEditor's inline mode to expose dynamically created editable divs. (I'm using CKEditor version 4.5.8.)
When using the inline editor, you can click your mouse away from the div to leave editing mode, which results in the following behavior changes:
The blue highlight around the div disappears
The blinking cursor disappears
Keypresses are no longer "typed" into the div (ie. the editor is now inactive).
But I can't figure out how to escape editor focus (ie. reproduce the above changes) without requiring the user to physically click the mouse. Here's what I've tried so far:
Called Jquery .blur() on the inline-editable element: This visually removes focus and CKEDITOR.currentInstance becomes null; but keypresses still cause characters to be added to the div, which re-activates focus.
Called Jquery .removeClass('cke_focus') on the inline-editable element - no visible effect.
Called Jquery .click() or .focus() on other elements on the page - no visible effect.
Called CKEDITOR.currentInstance.focusManager.blur() - no visible effect.
Called CKEDITOR.currentInstance.container.fire('blur') - no visible effect.
Called CKEDITOR.currentInstance.element.fire('blur') - no visible effect.
Called CKEDITOR.currentInstance.destroy() - it looks like the editor automatically re-initializes after destruction due to the contenteditable="true" attribute, or something like that. At any rate the div retains focus and continues to trap keypresses.
All I want is to recreate what happens when you click away from an inline editing div: the focus indicators disappear, and keypresses no longer add text to the div. Any ideas how I can accomplish this? Thanks in advance!

The trick was to combine the blur with removing all selection ranges that you currently have:
CKEDITOR.instances.editor1.on( 'contentDom', function() {
CKEDITOR.instances.editor1.document.on('keydown', function(event) {
if (event.data.getKey() == 27) {
$(CKEDITOR.currentInstance.element.$).blur();
window.getSelection().removeAllRanges();
}
});
});
And a working example:
https://jsfiddle.net/bwuhp14s/

IE 10 - div with scrollbar fires blur event causing it to hide (custom code)

We are using W2UI (Javascript UI) controls. It has a "Multi Select" input control with associated div container with suggestion data. Whenever user clicks on input control a suggestion div is popped up and user can select multiple items from the list. Please find below screenshot
We have set overfloaw:auto of div When suggestion list has more than 10 records. (Refer below screenshot)
At this point, clicking on scrollbar works fine in Chrome and Mozilla but in case of IE it closes / hides the div.
We have made initial RCA of this as follow.
When a scrollbar is associated to a div, clicking on scrollbar causes blur event to fire for that div.
In W2UI library, blur event is used to hide the suggestion div causing it to close. We also found that, clicking on scrollbar does not cause blur event to fire in chrome & firefox.
Now we want to suppress blur event when user clicks on "scrollbar" in case of IE.
We are unable to identify scrollbar click.
Please share your thoughts / workarounds about suppressing blur() event conditionally.

I am also facing same issue we have made some changes in w2ui lbrary
we have set global variable flagClick first time it is false. & added below events
var div = $('#w2ui-global-items');
div.on('mouseover', function (event)
{
flagClick = false;
$('.w2ui-list').find('input').focus();
});
div.on('mouseout', function (event)
{
flagClick = true;
});
and changed blur event logic of div
as below --
.on('blur', function (event)
{
if (flagClick)
{
$(div).css('outline', 'none');
obj.hide();
if (event.stopPropagation) event.stopPropagation();
else event.cancelBubble = true;
}
})
almost this logic have solved our issue, except one .
When we click on search textbox then list will populate , if after that we click on list scroolbar and after that click on outside list div , List not getting hide (div blur event not getting fired).
try this solution , it will help u .
If you get solution to our problem pls post on same .

An updated version of w2ui came out just a few days ago where controls, including multiselect, have been refactored. It seems to work fine for me with 1.4 version.

Dropdown plugin closing on scroll bar click

I'm in the process of teaching myself how to write a jQuery plugin. I am using the jquery-hover-dropdown-box as a base example. It's not just copy/paste though, I've made a number of changes trying to get a better understanding of it all. For example I'm not incorporating the hover event, I added a filter, and currently not using any defaults to name a few. Clicking on a div's scroll bar fires the blur event in I.E is the only post I've found with what looks like a good resolution to this and I tried implementing something similar but was unsuccessful.
Complete Example: jsFiddle
Issue:
I click in the input and the dropdown opens but the first time I click on the scroll bar, the dropdown closes. When I open the dropdown a second time and click on the scroll bar, it does not close (as I would expect). From what I can tell, my issue is in the blur on the input. I understand that when I click in the scroll bar, the input has lost focus. I tried to implement something similar to this post on Scrollbars not working on dropdown in IE8 but was unable to get it working.
Steps to Reproduce:
Click in the input to open the dropdown
Click anywhere in the scroll bar and the dropdown closes (should stay open and scroll)
Click in the input a second time and the dropdown opens
Click anywhere in the scroll bar and the dropdown stays open (as it should)
Question:
What am I doing wrong that is causing the dropdown to close only the first time I click on the scroll bar?
What I've Tried:
When I'm appending the ul to the div (currently commented out around line 68 in the jsFiddle), I added the code below. I figured that if I stopped the action from being triggered with a mousedown on the ul it would fix my issue. Although it did fix the issue in Chrome, it persists in IE8.
Update: I changed the code below from $list.mousedown... to $container.mousedown... since $list is the ul and $container is the div that contains it. My thought was that it extend the area. The result was the same though.
...
$container.append($list);
$list.mousedown(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
});
...
Since this seemed to be close, I tried taking a similar approach in the blur event. The issue explained above happens when I use this code. In Chrome, clicking the scroll bar does not fire the blur event but in IE8, it does. The first time the dropdown is opened and you click in the scroll bar, it logs "hiding". Open the dropdown again and click the scroll bar and it logs "bind mousedown". Click anywhere outside the dropdown and it closes (as it should) and logs "hiding" (as it should). To me it seems backwards, but obviously I'm not understanding it correctly. (The code below is around line 134 in the jsFiddle)
Code edit: Updated with Goran.it suggestion to prevent multiple bindings from happening.
...
// where $dom is the 'div' containing the 'ul'
$dom.unbind('mousedown.auto_dropdown_box_ul')
.bind('mousedown.auto_dropdown_box_ul', function(e) {
console.log('bind mousedown');
e.preventDefault();
});
setTimeout(function() {
console.log('hiding');
$dom.addClass('auto_dropdown_hide').hide();
}, 100);
...
I've also tried removing the blur event. I know this would prevent the dropdown from closing if you tabbed out of the input but figured it was worth a try. In Chrome it works exactly how I expected, clicking outside the input closes the dropdown, clicking the scroll bar does not close it and tabbing out does not close it. In IE8, clicking outside the dropdown does not close it though, nor does it close when you tab out, but clicking in the scroll bar does work. This is the code I added after removing blur (it's not included in the jsFiddle).
// below where the 'blur' event was
$(document).click(function(e) {
if (e.target == dropdownArray[0].input[0] || e.target == dropdownArray[0].dom[0]) {
console.log('matches');
e.preventDefault();
} else {
console.log('does not match');
dropdownArray[0].dom.addClass('auto_dropdown_box_hide').hide();
}
});
Again, this is my first attempt, I'm still learning. I'm sure there are multiple things that I'm probably doing wrong, that I can improve, etc. Before I tackle those, I would just like to understand what I'm doing wrong here and what I need to do to correct it. After reading the plugin concepts, I know there is much for me to learn.

I found few issues on a first look, you should change the :
$dom.bind('mousedown.auto_dropdown_box_ul'
to:
$dom.unbind('mousedown.auto_dropdown_box_ul').bind('mousedown.auto_dropdown_box_ul'
To prevent multiple events binding to the dom node, you can also use .one event handling of jQuery.
In the same event handling you should also put:
console.log('bind mousedown');
e.preventDefault();
return false;
To be sure event is not firing.
Hope this helps (I'm not having IE8 for a long time now)

I believe I finally figured this one out. After multiple tries I thought I'd change up the format to one that seemed, at least to me, a little more straight forward.
Here is the complete jsFiddle
The underlying fix was correctly setting/adjusting which element has focus and when. Since mousedown executes before click, I stuck with that event on the dropdown. In the mousedown event, I set isVisible = true and set focus back on the input (although the latter is not completely necessary). In the blur event, I'm checking isVisible. If it's true, that means that a click happened in the scroll bar so don't close the dropdown. If it's false, close the dropdown. Throughout events, I'm keeping track of isVisible so I know it's state when blur executes. Again, I changed up the format so the two fiddles do look different. I'm sure I could go back and implement something similar to the original fiddle and get it working but I just liked this way more. Here is a snippet of the relevant changes:
{
// some code above
// where $list is the 'ul'
$list.bind('mousedown', methods.onDropdownMousedown);
// where $obj is the 'input'
$obj.bind('blur', methods.doOnBlur);
},
onDropdownMousedown: function(e) {
$input.focus(); // not really needed, just in case
isVisible = true;
},
doOnBlur: function(e) {
if (isVisible) {
$input.focus();
isVisible = false;
} else {
// where $container is the 'div' containing the list
$container.addClass('auto_dropdown_box_hide').hide();
isVisible = false;
}
isVisible = false;
}

Prevent HTML contents from being interacted with

I have a site menu which sits underneath an overlying and is revealed by clicking on a button on the overlying , which slides it aside.
What I want to do is, while the site menu is open, prevent the overlying (everything but the menu button, ideally) from being interacted with.
I can do this by hiding and showing a container that sits over top of all the overlying content, but I was wondering if there's a way to just set some sort of property with CSS (best option) or javascript to disable click / touch events on the overlying . Any ideas?

You could use a JQuery modal overlay to prohibit the user from using anything else but whatever is in the modal div.
http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/#modal

When the menu is open, add this attribute to whatever controls you would like to disable
onclick="return false;"
Then remove the attribute when the menu is closed. This will prevent the default action from occuring.
You can do this without adding an attribute by using this code:
document.getElementById("myElement").onclick = function() { return false; }

CSS is about the look, not the behavior. So you can't enable or disable elements by applying CSS to them.
Your solution with an overlay is quite capable, i would do it this way too. Note that your overlay can be transparent or semi-transparent.
It is possible to be solved by overriding the click event with Javascript, but why bother creating a complicated solution (you'll have to redefine the onclick event on every element and then somehow set it back to normal) if you've already got a short clean solution?
As mbsurfer has already suggested, a quick way of disabling everything except your menu is to use the jQuery UI's .dialog with the modal option:
$(function() {
$( "#menu" ).dialog({
modal: true
});
});
More info in the docs: http://api.jqueryui.com/dialog/

HTMLDivElement not toggling

you will find my page here.
The issue that I'm having all of a sudden, is that when you click the start button on the lower left-hand corner of the document AFTER CLICKING IT ONCE and clicking on 'Media', the menu div will not toggle.
I've tried debugging and looking at the div in Chrome, and when I set the display of it manually, and check the div (by typing "menu" into the console [the variable for it]), it shows the updated display, but the actual page is not showing the change.
So, step by step:
1. Click the start button
2. Click on "Media".
3. Watch and ponder as the menu div will not toggle afterwards, even when you click on the start button again
Any ideas? I think it has something to do with the function that I use to open a "window".

Your problem is that by using document.getElementById("screentop").innerHTML+=all; you redefine the content of screentop and also the menu.
To fix it you simply need to redefine menu after adding the window.
Your function should look like this:
function openWin(url,icon,title)
{
//...
var all="...";
document.getElementById("screentop").innerHTML+=all;
menu=document.getElementById("menu");
//...
}