I have a div that has background:transparent, along with border. Underneath this div, I have more elements.
Currently, I'm able to click the underlying elements when I click outside of the overlay div. However, I'm unable to click the underlying elements when clicking directly on the overlay div.
I want to be able to click through this div so that I can click on the underlying elements.
Yes, you CAN do this.
Using pointer-events: none along with CSS conditional statements for IE11 (does not work in IE10 or below), you can get a cross browser compatible solution for this problem.
Using AlphaImageLoader, you can even put transparent .PNG/.GIFs in the overlay div and have clicks flow through to elements underneath.
CSS:
pointer-events: none;
background: url('your_transparent.png');
IE11 conditional:
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='your_transparent.png', sizingMethod='scale');
background: none !important;
Here is a basic example page with all the code.
Yes, you CAN force overlapping layers to pass through (ignore) click events.
PLUS you CAN have specific children excluded from this behavior...
You can do this, using pointer-events
pointer-events influences the reaction to click-, tap-, scroll- und hover events.
In a layer that should ignore / pass-through mentioned events you set
pointer-events: none;
Children of that unresponsive layer that need to react mouse / tap events again need:
pointer-events: auto;
That second part is very helpful if you work with multiple overlapping div layers (probably some parents being transparent), where you need to be able to click on child elements and only that child elements.
Example usage:
.parent {
pointer-events:none;
}
.child {
pointer-events:auto;
}
<div class="parent">
I'm unresponsive
I'm clickable again, wohoo !
</div>
Allowing the user to click through a div to the underlying element depends on the browser. All modern browsers, including Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera, understand pointer-events:none.
For IE, it depends on the background. If the background is transparent, clickthrough works without you needing to do anything. On the other hand, for something like background:white; opacity:0; filter:Alpha(opacity=0);, IE needs manual event forwarding.
See a JSFiddle test and CanIUse pointer events.
I'm adding this answer because I didn’t see it here in full. I was able to do this using elementFromPoint. So basically:
attach a click to the div you want to be clicked through
hide it
determine what element the pointer is on
fire the click on the element there.
var range-selector= $("")
.css("position", "absolute").addClass("range-selector")
.appendTo("")
.click(function(e) {
_range-selector.hide();
$(document.elementFromPoint(e.clientX,e.clientY)).trigger("click");
});
In my case the overlaying div is absolutely positioned—I am not sure if this makes a difference. This works on IE8/9, Safari Chrome and Firefox at least.
Hide overlaying the element
Determine cursor coordinates
Get element on those coordinates
Trigger click on element
Show overlaying element again
$('#elementontop').click(e => {
$('#elementontop').hide();
$(document.elementFromPoint(e.clientX, e.clientY)).trigger("click");
$('#elementontop').show();
});
I needed to do this and decided to take this route:
$('.overlay').click(function(e){
var left = $(window).scrollLeft();
var top = $(window).scrollTop();
//hide the overlay for now so the document can find the underlying elements
$(this).css('display','none');
//use the current scroll position to deduct from the click position
$(document.elementFromPoint(e.pageX-left, e.pageY-top)).click();
//show the overlay again
$(this).css('display','block');
});
I currently work with canvas speech balloons. But because the balloon with the pointer is wrapped in a div, some links under it aren't click able anymore. I cant use extjs in this case.
See basic example for my speech balloon tutorial requires HTML5
So I decided to collect all link coordinates from inside the balloons in an array.
var clickarray=[];
function getcoo(thatdiv){
thatdiv.find(".link").each(function(){
var offset=$(this).offset();
clickarray.unshift([(offset.left),
(offset.top),
(offset.left+$(this).width()),
(offset.top+$(this).height()),
($(this).attr('name')),
1]);
});
}
I call this function on each (new) balloon. It grabs the coordinates of the left/top and right/down corners of a link.class - additionally the name attribute for what to do if someone clicks in that coordinates and I loved to set a 1 which means that it wasn't clicked jet. And unshift this array to the clickarray. You could use push too.
To work with that array:
$("body").click(function(event){
event.preventDefault();//if it is a a-tag
var x=event.pageX;
var y=event.pageY;
var job="";
for(var i in clickarray){
if(x>=clickarray[i][0] && x<=clickarray[i][2] && y>=clickarray[i][1] && y<=clickarray[i][3] && clickarray[i][5]==1){
job=clickarray[i][4];
clickarray[i][5]=0;//set to allready clicked
break;
}
}
if(job.length>0){
// --do some thing with the job --
}
});
This function proofs the coordinates of a body click event or whether it was already clicked and returns the name attribute. I think it is not necessary to go deeper, but you see it is not that complicate.
Hope in was enlish...
Another idea to try (situationally) would be to:
Put the content you want in a div;
Put the non-clicking overlay over the entire page with a z-index higher,
make another cropped copy of the original div
overlay and abs position the copy div in the same place as the original content you want to be clickable with an even higher z-index?
Any thoughts?
I think the event.stopPropagation(); should be mentioned here as well. Add this to the Click function of your button.
Prevents the event from bubbling up the DOM tree, preventing any parent handlers from being notified of the event.
Just wrap a tag around all the HTML extract, for example
<a href="/categories/1">
<img alt="test1" class="img-responsive" src="/assets/photo.jpg" />
<div class="caption bg-orange">
<h2>
test1
</h2>
</div>
</a>
in my example my caption class has hover effects, that with pointer-events:none; you just will lose
wrapping the content will keep your hover effects and you can click in all the picture, div included, regards!
An easier way would be to inline the transparent background image using Data URIs as follows:
.click-through {
pointer-events: none;
background: url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7);
}
I think that you can consider changing your markup. If I am not wrong, you'd like to put an invisible layer above the document and your invisible markup may be preceding your document image (is this correct?).
Instead, I propose that you put the invisible right after the document image but changing the position to absolute.
Notice that you need a parent element to have position: relative and then you will be able to use this idea. Otherwise your absolute layer will be placed just in the top left corner.
An absolute position element is positioned relative to the first parent
element that has a position other than static.
If no such element is found, the containing block is html
Hope this helps. See here for more information about CSS positioning.
You can place an AP overlay like...
#overlay {
position: absolute;
top: -79px;
left: -60px;
height: 80px;
width: 380px;
z-index: 2;
background: url(fake.gif);
}
<div id="overlay"></div>
just put it over where you dont want ie cliked. Works in all.
This is not a precise answer for the question but may help in finding a workaround for it.
I had an image I was hiding on page load and displaying when waiting on an AJAX call then hiding again however...
I found the only way to display my image when loading the page then make it disappear and be able to click things where the image was located before hiding it was to put the image into a DIV, make the size of the DIV 10x10 pixels or small enough to prevent it causing an issue then hiding the containing div. This allowed the image to overflow the div while visible and when the div was hidden, only the divs area was affected by inability to click objects beneath and not the whole size of the image the DIV contained and was displaying.
I tried all the methods to hide the image including CSS display=none/block, opacity=0, hiding the image with hidden=true. All of them resulted in my image being hidden but the area where it was displayed to act like there was a cover over the stuff underneath so clicks and so on wouldn't act on the underlying objects. Once the image was inside a tiny DIV and I hid the tiny DIV, the entire area occupied by the image was clear and only the tiny area under the DIV I hid was affected but as I made it small enough (10x10 pixels), the issue was fixed (sort of).
I found this to be a dirty workaround for what should be a simple issue but I was not able to find any way to hide the object in its native format without a container. My object was in the form of etc. If anyone has a better way, please let me know.
I couldn't always use pointer-events: none in my scenario, because I wanted both the overlay and the underlying element(s) to be clickable / selectable.
The DOM structure looked like this:
<div id="outerElement">
<div id="canvas-wrapper">
<canvas id="overlay"></canvas>
</div>
<!-- Omitted: element(s) behind canvas that should still be selectable -->
</div>
(The outerElement, canvas-wrapper and canvas elements have the same size.)
To make the elements behind the canvas act normally (e.g. selectable, editable), I used the following code:
canvasWrapper.style.pointerEvents = 'none';
outerElement.addEventListener('mousedown', event => {
const clickedOnElementInCanvas = yourCheck // TODO: check if the event *would* click a canvas element.
if (!clickedOnElementInCanvas) {
// if necessary, add logic to deselect your canvas elements ...
wrapper.style.pointerEvents = 'none';
return true;
}
// Check if we emitted the event ourselves (avoid endless loop)
if (event.isTrusted) {
// Manually forward element to the canvas
const mouseEvent = new MouseEvent(event.type, event);
canvas.dispatchEvent(mouseEvent);
mouseEvent.stopPropagation();
}
return true;
});
Some canvas objects also came with input fields, so I had to allow keyboard events, too.
To do this, I had to update the pointerEvents property based on whether a canvas input field was currently focused or not:
onCanvasModified(canvas, () => {
const inputFieldInCanvasActive = // TODO: Check if an input field of the canvas is active.
wrapper.style.pointerEvents = inputFieldInCanvasActive ? 'auto' : 'none';
});
it doesn't work that way. the work around is to manually check the coordinates of the mouse click against the area occupied by each element.
area occupied by an element can found found by 1. getting the location of the element with respect to the top left of the page, and 2. the width and the height. a library like jQuery makes this pretty simple, although it can be done in plain js. adding an event handler for mousemove on the document object will provide continuous updates of the mouse position from the top and left of the page. deciding if the mouse is over any given object consists of checking if the mouse position is between the left, right, top and bottom edges of an element.
Nope, you can't click ‘through’ an element. You can get the co-ordinates of the click and try to work out what element was underneath the clicked element, but this is really tedious for browsers that don't have document.elementFromPoint. Then you still have to emulate the default action of clicking, which isn't necessarily trivial depending on what elements you have under there.
Since you've got a fully-transparent window area, you'll probably be better off implementing it as separate border elements around the outside, leaving the centre area free of obstruction so you can really just click straight through.
I have a list of anchor elements (it's a page navigator at the bottom of the page). On mobile, the list wraps to two lines. I want to keep it at one line for easier mobile use, and display only the page numbers that will fit within the screen. I don't want to do whitespace: nowrap; or overflow-x: scroll -- I want to have as many elements as possible display on one line without scrolling or disappearing into the horizontal ether.
I was thinking I'd determine the window width with jQuery, and if the width of the list as a whole exceeds the width of the screen, show only the elements on either side of the active page div that will fit on one line. Is there such a thing as "select certain number of siblings"?
I know .siblings() exists in jQuery as well as the CSS sibling selector, but these either select all siblings or only the one immediately adjacent sibling. I want to dynamically select the siblings on either side of the active element (page) depending on screen size.
Without any code, it's hard to tell exactly what you're doing. But I would use whitespace: nowrap; so that the elements are as wide as they can be, then you can loop through them and compare their width to the viewport or container width, and selectively hide them. (or alternatively, hide them by default with opacity: 0; or visibility: hidden; and only show the ones whose widths are less than the container/viewport). Something like this:
var cw = $('.container').width();
$('footer li').each(function() {
if ($(this).width() > cw) {
$(this).addClass('hidden');
}
});
You can set the width of each element to window width/number of items
var numberOfAnchors=$("a").length;
$("a").css("width",$(window).width()/numberOfAnchors+"px");
but make sure that the anchor display is different to display:inline
I have a weird problem and i cant find a solution no matter what i tried.
I have a simple menu that toggles few divs (slide up/down), like this:
<div class="navigation">
<ul class="left">
<li>lorem1</li>
<li>lorem2</li>
<li>lorem3</li>
</ul>
</div>
and a few divs that are being toggled.Pretty simple but there is a lot of code, so i wont paste it here.
Script that makes it work is:
$('.navigation a').click(function() {
var $requested = $(this.getAttribute('href'));
$('.top-drawer').not($requested).slideUp('slow');
$requested.slideToggle('slow')
});
Once the user clicks on the link, the div slides down more than it should, flickers and then it becomes the real height (the height is should be).
Here is a Fiddle. Please be sure to have the "Result" Window at at least 1000+ px wide otherwise it wont work (the error wont be shown).
See my suggestion on this JSFIDDLE
Here an explanation of the changes in there:
The Problem
With all those floating elements inside each .top-drawer jQuery has a lot of issues calculating the height of the div because the elements will move around while sliding up and down.
Suggestion
Switching to inline-block instead. But for that to work with your CSS, particularly with the padding on each .top-drawer, you need to use box-sizing: border-box; on anything that is using padding, inline-block and width with %. If curious you can read about this HERE.
New problem
If you go the route of inline-block (best practice now). You will need to use jQuery 1.8.xx or higher. I noticed in your fiddle you use 1.7.2, which has a bug with border-box that was fixed in versions after that.
Try to understand the code you are using.
This is the way I think jQuery's slideUp(), and slideDown() works; mainly the algorithm changes the height of the element, and display after the height is equal to the height of the element or at "0".
So when you will have your element's position set to relative you will see what you're calling "flickers", specially when you have multiple element at the same position. You will also see these "flickers" when you use fadeIn(), fadeOut() etc, because the display of the element is not instantly set to "none" or anything visible in these cases, but after the animation completes.
Solution:
Set the element's position to absolute. That should solve your issue;
example.
Is it possible to save off all CSS that is 'currently' applied to an element, then later reapply it? I am working on a sticking table header, and when I i change position:fixed it loses all the applied styles. I currently save off the column widths and reapply to the table header with:
$('#tableHeader').css({
position:'fixed',
width:$('#tablePanel').width(),
top:$('#top').height(),
});
$('.column1Value').width(col1Width);
$('#col1').width(col1Width);
$('.column2Value').width(col2Width);
$('#col2').width(col2Width);
$('.column3Value').width(col3Width);
$('#col3').width(col3Width);
$('.column4Value').width(col4Width);
$('#col4').width(col4Width);
$('.column5Value').width(col5Width);
$('#col5').width(col5Width);
$('.column6Value').width(col6Width);
$('#col6').width(col6Width);
$('.column7Value').width(col7Width);
$('#col7').width(col7Width);
This make the columns the correct size and line up closely, but there is extra padding or margin being applied from somewhere I can't completely figure out (bootstrap probably), and this makes the headers and columns not line up. I was hoping for something like:
var savedCSS = $('#table').css(); and retrieve it like $('#table').css(savedCSS)
You could save off the individual styles that you are interested in one by one and then re-apply them later using the jQuery("selector").css("styleName") method that you alluded to, but I don't think there's an easy way to do them all at once. It's not impossible, but wouldn't be very efficient and probably wouldn't actually give you the result you want, once the element is in its new position.
After the discussion, we found that the sizing issue wasn't really due to the styles, but due to the element that the width was being calculated from.
When the element is positioned normally in the page-flow, it uses its most recent positioned parent's width and then takes off margin to find the width of the child content.
When the element is removed from the page flow, its width is then independent of the parent. So to get the two to match up, record the parent's width rather than the element itself and set the width to match the parent, instead of trying to maintain the element's width.
Imagine search bar on html page, it has, say 4 controls on the same line, each wrapped in DIV.
E.g. a few listboxes on the same line:
searchbyX, byY, byZ, byN
After some clicks, some of these controls are hidden, some are displayed (using JQuery).
The problem is that I want each control to keep it's place, but if I hide it's left neighbour, it will move to the left, thus not keeping its original position.
How to show/hide controls keeping their locations the same?
If I understand you correctly,
visibility: hidden
will do the trick.
It will hide the element, but reserve the space it needs.
To make it visible again, remove the property or set a explicit
visibility: visible
Instead of hiding them by setting "display" to "none", set "visibility" to "hidden".