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Creating a preview effect for gallery images that closes when clicked outside

I am making a preview box that pops up when you click a gallery image and need to make it disappear when you click outside of it. I found many solutions but none work with my code. I think the problem is I may need a while loop but I tried several conditions and all were infinite.
This is the last solution I tried. The preview works but I can't get it to close when I click out.
DEMO
$('.portPic').click(function() {
if ($(this).attr('data-src2')) {
$('#clickedImg').attr('src', $(this).attr('data-src2'));
} else {
$('#clickedImg').attr('src', $(this).attr('src'));
}
$('#clickedImg').css('visibility', 'visible');
$('#clickedImg').blur(function() {
$('#clickedImg').css('visibility', 'hidden');
});
});

I've done a similar thing with a pop-out menu, where the user clicks "off" the menu and it closes. The same can be applied here.
I used an overlay div which spans the whole screen (with a translucent opacity - maybe 0.6 black or similar; or whatever colour you want) which gives a nice modal effect. Give it an id - let's say modal-overlay.
You can put it static in your page code, and set the display to none and make it the full-size of the page (through a CSS class).
<div id="modal-overlay" class="full-screen-overlay"></div>
Set the z-index of the overlay to higher than the rest of your page, and the z-index of your popup to higher than the overlay. Then when you show your popup, also set the visibility of the modal-overlay to visible, too.
In your script code, put an event handler for when the modal div is clicked:
$('#modal-overlay').click(function() {
$('#clickedImg').hide();
$('#modal-overlay').hide();
})
I would also use the .hide() jQuery method, which is easier than typing out the visibility.
Better still, if you have more than 1 thing going on (which you would with a modal overlay), wrap your "show/hide" of the popup in a hidePopup() or closePopup() method and call it onClick to save re-using code.
For effects when opening the popup/overlay, you can also use jQuery animations like .fadeIn() or .slideDown(). Use fadeOut and slideUp to hide.
These animations also perform the showing/hiding, so you wouldn't need to call .hide() or .show().
Check out this link to jQuery's API documentation for animations. Very useful and a good read.
Hope this helps!

You'll need to create a seperate div that is most likely fixed position that sits just one step lower (z-index) than your popped-up image. Attach a click handler to this div (overlay) and do your showing/hiding functions in there.

You can use modal photo gallery.
http://ashleydw.github.io/lightbox/
You can use this codepen code, too. SO is not letting me post the link here. So serach using thi "Bootstrap Gallery with Modal and Carousel".
Hope this helps..

After first click on delegate selector, it refreshes the page

I am having a serious problem using .delegate in jQuery 1.11
I have a sidebar called ".local-filters" which opens when I click #consult-filter.
After that, the hidden sidebar from the right appears (named .local-filter) (toggles a class called .active) and ".overlay" (100% height and width div) makes a black background with class ".active"
I used this to make that happen. Also, I want to click on .overlay (black background) and toggle the overlay class to make it visual disappear.
$(document).delegate('#consult-filter, .overlay, .cerrar filtros','click',function(){
$(".local-filters").toggleClass('active');
$("body").toggleClass('menu-active');
return false;
});
I read a lot of articles and read something about bubble spreading, but I don't know actually what is happening.
Everything is working correctly, but I don't know why in the second click I made to this element, it automatically refreshes the entire page.
Any ideas?

jQuery hover repositions on subsequent hovers

I have a hover event set on an element that use's jQuery UI's position function to show a div right underneath it, with the "out" set to hide that div.
The problem is, subsequent hovers position that div further and further on each hover.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/Shpigford/8ZkgJ/
Hover over the red box, then hover over it again and you'll see the blue box quickly get positioned further and further to the right.
Same thing happens if I change to a click event. Seems like something odd is happening with positioning when I hide the div and then try to show it again.

Instead of position({...}).show(), use show().position({...}). The reason is that positon won't work when the element is invisible. You can find the following note at http://api.jqueryui.com/position/:
jQuery UI does not support positioning hidden elements

if cursor inside div then display block jquery

Here is a jsfiddle of the problem:
http://jsfiddle.net/MEJgb/
I want it so when you hover over anywhere in the footer the toggledown will become active and will remain active until you move the mouse from the footer.

Your problem is the following line:
jQuery('html,body').animate({
scrollTop: jQuery("#footer_copy_right").offset().top
}, 'slow');
This causes the whole page to move adn thus the item you were hovering over is no longer being hovered over so it triggers your event again and hides your text. When I was testing this was causing the hover content to move back under my mouse and thus trigger again...
I would personally not use hover in this situation and let the user click to expand and then click again to collapse.
If you want to keep using the hover option then you need to decide what the event to trigger the collapse should be. Clearly the current choice (mouse no longer over the arrow) is insufficient.
Often what I will do is attach the hover to a block containing the visible triggering block as well as the contents that are going to be displayed. This way your content won't collapse until you have moved off the newly displayed content.
http://jsfiddle.net/AjHwM/ is an example of such a thing.

Even if I'm not sure what your actual goal is, maybe the document.elementFromPoint() method is what helps you out here.
It is invoked like
if( document.elementFromPoint( event.pageX, event.pageY ) === $('#footer')[0] ) { }
That code, within your hover aka mouseenter / mouseleave handlers, would compare the node which lays under the current absolute mouse cursor X/Y positions against the #footer node.
Ref.: MDN doc, W3C doc

Homemade Jquery lightbox, but z-index won't change back afterwards

So I'm trying to make a simple lightbox on a concert listings page. You click a listing (.performer), and then an info box (.lightboxinfo) gets overlaid while a semi-opaque white div lightens the rest of the screen (#whitepage). Then, you click anywhere on the screen, and the box and white div disappear.
Everything works fine except the final z-index changes. The box and white div become fully transparent, but the z-index clearly haven't been changed since I can't click on any links.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks so much!
The javascript is below:
$('.performer a').click(
function(){
$('.lightboxinfo').css('z-index','110').animate({opacity:'1'}, {queue:false,duration:500});
$('#whitepage').css('z-index','100').animate({opacity:'0.4'}, {queue:false,duration:500});
});
$(document).click(
function(){
$('#whitepage').css('z-index','-100').animate({opacity:'0'},{queue:false,duration:100});
$('.lightboxinfo').css('z-index','-110').animate({opacity:'0'},{queue:false,duration:100});
});
});

Why mess around with the z-index when you can set 'display:none' after your opacity becomes 0?
// when appearing
$('#whitepage').css('opacity','0').show().animate({opacity:'0.4'}, 500);
// when disappearing
$('#whitepage').animate({opacity:'0'}, 100, function () {
$('#whitepage').hide();
});
Also, each time you click on the performer link, you're adding another event handler to the document. You may want to do that only once, outside of the click and only if the whitepage is visible.
$('.performer a').click(function () {
});
$(document).click(function () {
$('#whitepage:visible').animate(...
});

This is a bit difficult to answer as you haven't given the HTML and CSS, but there are a few things you should probably look at.
I assume your lightbox divs are positioned absolutely. Any (container) elements that you want to appear over them must be positioned relatively or absolutely or z-index will have no effect and relatively / absolutely positioned elements will always be on top of them.
You're animating the opacity manually, rather than using jQuery's built in fadeOut animation. Apart from giving compatibility with browsers that don't support opacity, fadeOut also sets the hidden element to display: none. This allows you to click on stuff that would otherwise be underneath the lightbox, whereas just reducing the opacity to 0 still leaves the element there and able to accept and block clicks. (So using fadeOut also means you'd no longer have to toggle the z-index.)
This is not directly related to the problem you mentioned, but both of the events you've set up will fire when you click on a .performer a link. (I think this is why you've prevented the animations from being queued: both will run together and the one that sets the opacity to 1 wins as it finishes last.) This does, however, stop the lightbox getting the z-index you want. To prevent this happening, you either need to set the close lightbox click event to #whitepage or stop the event propagating.
$('.performer a').click(function(event)
{
$('.lightboxinfo, #whitepage').fadeIn(500);
event.stopPropagation();
});