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Hide tab by clicking the tab instead of clicking any part of the website

I created a support tab on this page (the one on the right):
http://test88.fccbet.com/
This is where I got the the tab slide out effect: http://www.building58.com/examples/tabSlideOut.html
Right now the main tab hides if you click to any part of the webpage. What js should I add so it will only hide if I click the side tab?
Please refer to this image to know the main tab and side tab.
echosantos.com/tabslideout/tab-desired-outcome.jpg
These are the codes I used for this support tab:
HTML:
<div id="bannerLeft">
<div class="slide-out-div no-phone no-phone-landscape" style="background-image:url(images/support-tab.png); "><br />
Fccbet
<a class="handle" href="#"></a><div id="close-bottom"><img src="#routes.Assets.at("images/close-chat.jpg")"/>
</div>
CSS:
.slide-out-div {
width: 125px;
height:392px;
background: url(../images/support-tab.png); }
#range-logo {
background-image:url(../images/support-tab.png);
display:block;
text-indent:-9999px;
width: 125px;
height:396px;}
JAVASCRIPT:
$(function () {
$('.slide-out-div').tabSlideOut({
tabHandle: '.handle', //class of the element that will become your tab
pathToTabImage: 'http://wpaoli.building58.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/contact_tab.gif', //path to the image for the tab //Optionally can be set using css
imageHeight: '122px', //height of tab image //Optionally can be set using css
imageWidth: '40px', //width of tab image //Optionally can be set using css
tabLocation: 'left', //side of screen where tab lives, top, right, bottom, or left
speed: 300, //speed of animation
action: 'click', //options: 'click' or 'hover', action to trigger animation
topPos: '200px', //position from the top/ use if tabLocation is left or right
leftPos: '20px', //position from left/ use if tabLocation is bottom or top
fixedPosition: false //options: true makes it stick(fixed position) on scroll
});
$('.slide-out-div > .handle').click();
});
Thanks in advance! Cheers!

Looking into the jQuery.tabSlideOut plugin code you can see here:
https://gist.github.com/katowulf/2655810#file-jquery-tabslideout-1-3-js-L164-L165
The document is listening to a click event hiding the menu in the callback.
$(document).click(function(){
slideIn();
});
I would suggest removing this part of the code from the plugin if you do not want to use this feature.
If you think you may need this feature in the future you can wrap a flag around it by adding a property to callerSettings parameter that is passed in when you initialize the plugin.
var settings = $.extend({
tabHandle: '.handle',
speed: 300,
action: 'click',
tabLocation: 'left',
topPos: '200px',
leftPos: '20px',
fixedPosition: false,
positioning: 'absolute',
pathToTabImage: null,
imageHeight: null,
imageWidth: null,
onLoadSlideOut: false,
tabHandleOffset: 0,
hideOnDocClick: true //new flag to check for doc click hide
}, callerSettings||{});
...
Then use the flag to check whether to add the listener or not:
if(settings.hideOnDocClick){
$(document).click(function(){
slideIn();
});
}
....
And when you finally initialize the plugin you can set the flag to false:
$('.slide-out-div').tabSlideOut({
tabHandle: '.handle', //class of the element that will become your tab
pathToTabImage: 'http://wpaoli.building58.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/contact_tab.gif', //path to the image for the tab //Optionally can be set using css
imageHeight: '122px', //height of tab image //Optionally can be set using css
imageWidth: '40px', //width of tab image //Optionally can be set using css
tabLocation: 'left', //side of screen where tab lives, top, right, bottom, or left
speed: 300, //speed of animation
action: 'click', //options: 'click' or 'hover', action to trigger animation
topPos: '200px', //position from the top/ use if tabLocation is left or right
leftPos: '20px', //position from left/ use if tabLocation is bottom or top
fixedPosition: false, //options: true makes it stick(fixed position) on scroll
hideOnDocClick: false //set flag to false - menu does NOT hide when user clicks on doc
});

Colorbox positioning on top of another element

I've got quite an issue with positioning of colorbox. The methods described on official website http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/ are not quite enough for my purpose. The thing is that I have button opening the colorbox and I need to position it "over the button" (button is 50px height, colorbox is something about 700px height so I need to center it over the button (something like 300px top of the button).
I have tried basic repositioning with jquery in onOpen and onLoad function in colorbox like:
onOpen:function() {
$('#colorbox').removeAttr('top');
$('#colorbox').css('top','200px');
},
It works but colorbox settings automatically overwrite those settings right after onOpen or onLoad and colorbox is positioned in center of the viewport again.
So I am basically calling for help, colorbox positioning settings like top, left etc. are simply not enough for positioning on top of the button element.
Thanks in advance!
Edit: full code below
$(".reserve_").live('click',function() {
var loadUrl = $(this).attr("href");
$.colorbox({
innerWidth:660,
innerHeight:720,
returnFocus: true,
overlayClose: true,
fixed: false,
iframe: true,
href: loadUrl,
opacity: 0.6,
reposition: true,
onOpen:function() {
$('#colorbox').removeAttr('top');//test
$('#colorbox').css('top','200px');//test
},
onLoad: function() {
$('#colorbox').removeAttr('top');//test
$('#colorbox').css('top','200px');//test
},
onClosed:function() {
}
});
return false;
});
EDIT 2: link on jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/zS8J8/8/ (sorry about the messy code in CSS and HTML)

The jsfiddle was helpful, I was able to use the same code as you and get it working.
This was tested in firefox 20, chrome 26, IE 9 on Win 7. The "Open Colorbox" link isn't visible in IE using your HTML, but if you move your mouse in that area, you'll see the cursor change and if you click, Colorbox will open in the correct location.
Here's the HTML, I changed class="rezervuj" to id="rezervuj" because we're keying on a single element rather than a bunch of images:
<h3 style="margin-bottom: 300px;">TOP OF THE PAGE</h3>
<div class="unitKontejner">
<div style="float:right;">
<a id="rezervuj" href="http://www.imgur.com">
<div class="reserveIt">
<div class="reserveIt-content">
open colorbox »
</div>
</div>
</a>
</div>
</div>
Here's the script that you can put in the head:
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
// I removed the options that were set to the default.
// The top and left can be left out or set to a default,
// I used them as a test to see the difference when the event hook is used.
$("#rezervuj").colorbox({
iframe:true,
innerWidth:660,
innerHeight:720,
opacity: 0.6,
top: 0,
left: 0
});
// Use the "cbox_complete" event hook.
// It allows the colorbox div to be positioned after it opens,
// but before the content is loaded.
$(document).bind('cbox_complete', function(){
// Grab the position of the button,
// colorbox can be positioned relative to it.
var pos = $(rezervuj).position();
//console.log(pos);
// Set the position of the colorbox div
// You can add to or subtract from the pos values
// Example: top: (pos.top + 20) + "px"
$("#colorbox").css({
position: "absolute",
top: pos.top + "px",
left: pos.left + "px"
}).show();
});
});
</script>

you can also try this.
$.colorbox({
width: "600px", height: "500px", inline: false, overlayClose: false, escKey: true, iframe: true,
onComplete: function () {
$('#colorbox').removeAttr('top');//test
$('#colorbox').css('top', '100px');//test
$('#colorbox').removeAttr('display');//test
$('#colorbox').css('display', 'block');//test
},
onLoad: function () {
$('#colorbox').removeAttr('display');//test
$('#colorbox').css('display', 'none');//test
},
});

carouFredSel: Show partial items?

I'm using carouFredSel to create a vertical carousel. Everything works great, except I would prefer if partial items would be shown at the bottom, cropped, rather than being hidden. This way it would indicate to users that there are additional items that can be scrolled.
I have been reading the documentation, but so far can't tell if what I am after is possible.
Check out the JSFiddle to see what I mean. Watch the bottom most item on the page.
Javascript
$("ul").carouFredSel({
direction: "up",
align: "top",
width: 100,
height: "100%",
items: {
visible: "variable",
width: 100,
height: "variable"
},
scroll: {
items: 1,
mousewheel: true,
easing: "swing",
duration: 500
},
auto: false,
prev: {
button: ".prev",
key: "up"
},
next: {
button: ".next",
key: "down"
}
});​

This is a bit of a hack, but it works. Set the height of the scroller (in this case, ul) to 150% and the parent element (in this case, body) to overflow: hidden. Now the bottom most element is off screen.
Javascript
$("ul").carouFredSel({
height: "150%"
});
CSS
body {
overflow: hidden;
}

Ha, caroufredsel supports it, no hacks required :))! You can achieve it with the following option:
items: {
visible: '+1'
}
EDIT: This suffers from a problem though. If number of whole visible items + 1 == number of all items, then carousel cannot be scrolled even though one image is visible just partially. You can overcome this issue by setting e.g. minimum: 1 but it is not always a way to go (e.g. if number of images is dynamic and you don't want scroll handlers to appear when there is just one or two images.).

The next not visible element in the vertical carousel is pushed down by the margin.
I'm currently overriding it by the following function:
function cropCarousel () {
var visibleElements = this.triggerHandler("currentVisible"), // show all visible
$lastElement = $(visibleElements[visibleElements.length - 1]); // get the last one
$lastElement.css('margin-bottom', '30px'); // amend the margin
};
cropCarousel.call($('#your_carousel_id'));
The downside of it that you will have to call this function on carousel init and on up and down events. But it works ;)

Add a scrollbar to a modal box in prototype

im created a modal box using prototype.js using the following code, i want to add the scroll to this , how can i add that ?
Modalbox.show($('viewModalbox-'+questionid),{
title: question,
width: 500,
overlayClose: false,
overlayOpacity: 0.25
});

From the ModalBox site:
NEW! “Scrolling mode”. If your content might be long just define the height of the ModalBox and it will be switched into “scrolling mode”
So you just need to add a height value!
Modalbox.show($('viewModalbox-'+questionid),{
title: question,
width: 500,
height: 500,
overlayClose: false,
overlayOpacity: 0.25
});

Todays Special: How is this done? Is there a jquery plugin or product to do it?

I saw this technique at the bottom of a web page where the TAB stays in place at the bottom of the page and can be opened and closed to display more info. I assume it can be rotated to display a different special for different days. Can you point me to anything like it or explain the technique ? thanks. Here is a sample: http://www.tmdhosting.com/ look at the bottom of the page .

position: fixed is how you manage to keep something at the bottom or top of the page, regardless of scrolling.
This is easily discoverable using firebug's (http://getfirebug.com/) inspect element feature

You can check out my version of this at uxspoke.com
I wrote a jQuery plugin to do it, and calling it is straightforward:
$('#about').pulloutPanel({open:true}).
click(function() { $(this).trigger('toggle'); }) });
I basically instrument the panel to support "open", "close" events, and the implement the appropriate animations around them. The only "hard" part is getting the height right. It also supports "toggle" so you can add a generic click handler to it to open or close it. Finally, it uses opened/closed classes to keep track of its current state. That's it!
The code's pretty coupled to the technologies on the page (Csster) and the design it is in, so I'm not sure it will work for you. You can either use Csster, or just put the CSS rules into your stylesheet and remove them from the code. The important Css attributes are the positioning and bottom.
Here it is:
$.fn.pulloutPanel = function(options) {
var settings = $.extend({}, {
attachTo: 'bottom',
css: {
left: 0,
minHeight: 390,
border: '1px 1px 1px 0 solid #666',
has: [roundedCorners('tr', 10),boxShadow([0,0], 10, phaseToColor('requirements').saturate(-30).darken(50))],
cursor: 'pointer'
}, options);
return $(this).each(function() {
var $this = $(this);
$this.addClass('pullout_panel');
$this.bind('open', function(event) {
$this.animate({bottom: 0}, 'slow', 'easeOutBounce', function() {
$this.removeClass('closed').addClass('opened');
$this.trigger('opened');
});
});
$this.bind('close', function(event) {
var height = $this.innerHeight();
$this.animate({bottom: -height + 50}, 'slow', 'easeOutBounce', function() {
$this.addClass('closed').removeClass('opened');
$this.trigger('closed');
});
});
$this.bind('toggle', function(event) {
$this.trigger($this.hasClass('opened') ? 'close' : 'open');
});
once(function() {
Csster.style({
'.pullout_panel': {
position: 'fixed',
bottom: 0,
has: [settings.css]
}
});
});
$this.trigger(settings.open ? 'open' : 'close');
});
};