vue-outside-events

Vue 2.x directive to react on events outside of an element without stopping the event's propagation.

Works well for handling clicks outside of menus and popups. Can handle any DOM event or CustomEvent. Also able to capture jQuery events.

Install

npm install --save vue-outside-events

Demos

Check out the highly contrived demos here: https://nchutchind.github.io/vue-outside-events/docs/index.html

Use

Modular

import Vue from 'vue'
import vOutsideEvents from 'vue-outside-events'

Vue.use(vOutsideEvents)

<script>
  export default {
    methods: {
      onClickOutside (e, el) {
        console.log('onClickOutside');
        console.log('click heard outside element:', el);
        console.log('element clicked:', e.target);
        console.log('event:', e);
      },
      onMouseOutside (e, el) {
        console.log('onMouseOutside');
        console.log('mouse moved outside element:', el);
        console.log('element mouse moved over:', e.target);
        console.log('event:', e);
      },
      onFoo (e, el, extras) {
        console.log('onFoo');
        console.log('fooEvent happened outside element:', el);
        console.log('element that triggered foo:', e.target);
        console.log('event:', e);
        console.log('extras:', extras);
        console.log('bar:', extras.bar);
      }
    }
  };
</script>

<template>
  <div v-click-outside="onClickOutside"></div>
  <div v-mousemove-outside="onMouseOutside"></div>
  <div v-event-outside="{ name: 'fooEvent', handler: onFoo, bar: 'baz' }"></div>
</template>

Scripts

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/vue/2.2.6/vue.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="js/v-outside-events.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<div id="app">
  <div v-click-outside="onClickOutside"></div>
  <div v-mousemove-outside="onMouseOutside"></div>
  <div v-event-outside="{ name: 'fooEvent', handler: onFoo, bar: 'baz' }"></div>
</div>

<script>
  new Vue({
    el: '#app',
    methods: {
      onClickOutside (e, el) {
        console.log('onClickOutside');
        console.log('click heard outside element:', el);
        console.log('element clicked:', e.target);
        console.log('event:', e);
      },
      onMouseOutside (e, el) {
        console.log('onMouseOutside');
        console.log('mouse moved outside element:', el);
        console.log('element mouse moved over:', e.target);
        console.log('event:', e);
      },
      onFoo (e, el, extras) {
        console.log('onFoo');
        console.log('fooEvent happened outside element:', el);
        console.log('element that triggered foo:', e.target);
        console.log('event:', e);
        console.log('extras:', extras);
        console.log('bar:', extras.bar);
      }
    }
  });
</script>

Events

Event	Event Name	Directive	Binding
Click	click	v-click-outside	="handlerName"
Double-Click	dblclick	v-dblclick-outside	="handlerName"
Focus	focusin	v-focus-outside	="handlerName"
Blur	focusout	v-blur-outside	="handlerName"
Mouse Over / Enter	mouseover	v-mouseover-outside	="handlerName"
Mouse Move	mousemove	v-mousemove-outside	="handlerName"
Mouse Up	mouseup	v-mouseup-outside	="handlerName"
Mouse Down	mousedown	v-mousedown-outside	="handlerName"
Mouse Out	mouseout	v-mouseout-outside	="handlerName"
Key Down	keydown	v-keydown-outside	="handlerName"
Key Up	keyup	v-keyup-outside	="handlerName"
Key Press	keypress	v-keypress-outside	="handlerName"
Change	change	v-change-outside	="handlerName"
Select	select	v-select-outside	="handlerName"
Submit	submit	v-submit-outside	="handlerName"
Custom	"eventName"	v-event-outside	="{ name: 'eventName', handler: handlerName }"

Extras

Add additional key/value pairs to the custom event to pass data to the event handler.

<div v-event-outside="{ name: 'fooEvent', handler: onFoo, bar: 'baz' }"></div>

onFoo (e, el, extras) {
  console.log('onFoo');
  console.log('fooEvent happened outside element:', el);
  console.log('element that triggered foo:', e.target);
  console.log('event:', e);
  console.log('extras:', extras);
  console.log('bar:', extras.bar);
}

Modifiers

Add the jquery modifier to allow the directive to handle jQuery triggering of custom events. jQuery must be present in the window for this to work.

<div id="myDiv1" v-event-outside="{ name: 'onFoo', handler: onFooOutside }"></div>
<div id="myDiv2" v-event-outside.jquery="{ name: 'onFoo', handler: onFooOutside }"></div>

<script>
  $(document).trigger("onFoo"); // onFooOutside will be called for #myDiv2, but not #myDiv1

  var event = document.createEvent('Event');
  event.initEvent('onFoo', true, true);
  document.dispatchEvent(event); // onFooOutside will be called for #myDiv1 and #myDiv2
</script>

License

MIT License

Style