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JavaScript

Posted by Suzanne Cranen
Suzanne Cranen
7,497 Points

Responsive menu, click outside of nav

Hello,

I am making a website and of course I want to make it responsive, so I wanted to make a menu that looks different on a smaller screen than on a bigger screen. For the smaller screen I added an image and when you click on the image "menu" the nav toggles between hide and show. But I also want it to hide when I click outside of the navigation or the image. I have search a lot on the internet and I cannot find any solution which will work with my code, so is there anyone who can help me?

The website I am building is www.odinwesten.nl/test/ This is my code:

<script src="js/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){

    $("#menu").bind("click", function(){
            $("nav").toggle();
            event.preventDefault();
    });

});
</script>

</head>

<body>
    <header>
        <div id="afb">
            <a><h1>Odin Westen</h1></a>
            <img src="img/header.png" alt="Odin Westen" />
            <a href="#" alt="menu" id="menu"><img src="img/Knopje.png" alt="menu" /></a>
        </div>

        <nav>
            <ul>
                <li class="home <?php if ($section == "home") { echo "on"; }; ?>"><a href="index.php">Home</a></li>
                <li class="biografie <?php if ($section == "biografie") { echo "on"; }; ?>"><a href="biografie.php">Biografie</a></li>
                <li class="foto <?php if ($section == "foto") { echo "on"; }; ?>"><a href="foto.php">Foto<span>'</span>s</a></li>
                <li class="video <?php if ($section == "video") { echo "on"; }; ?>"><a href="video.php">Video<span>'</span>s</a></li>
                <li class="contact <?php if ($section == "contact") { echo "on"; }; ?>"><a href="contact.php">Contact</a></li>
            </ul>
        </nav>
    </header>

2 Answers

Daniel Quaidoo
Daniel Quaidoo
23,937 Points
Daniel Quaidoo
Daniel Quaidoo
23,937 Points

$(document).click(function() { $("nav").hide(); }); $("#menu").click(function(e) { e.stopPropagation(); return false; });

Try this

Suzanne Cranen
Suzanne Cranen
7,497 Points

It's working :D thank you very much!

Daniel Quaidoo
Daniel Quaidoo
23,937 Points
Daniel Quaidoo
Daniel Quaidoo
23,937 Points

Your nav menu already hides when you click on the image. If you want it to hide when outside the nav is clicked, you could use javascript and on click event function if the nav link is not clicked (i.e. anywhere apart from the nav) hide the nav menu

Suzanne Cranen
Suzanne Cranen
7,497 Points

And how can I write that I have to click anywhere apart from the nav?