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Scenario
My view in my backbone app consists of several boxes(which are div elements)
. When user clicks on one box and hold down the mouse button for 500 millisecond, then I want to show a delete
button on top left corner. When user clicks on anywhere else #wrapper
then that delete
button should hide.
Problem
So showing delete
button is not the issue. It does show delete button when I click and hold for a second it shows delete button for half a second then hides. It hides because I am also adding click event to its parent element #wrapper
which actually hides this delete button.
Question
So how can I stop parent element #wrapper
from triggering click event when I am clicking and holding down on child element box
?
Here is my code
Here is the code for parent element module
var Boxes = Backbone.View.extend({
el: '#wrapper',
events: {
'click': 'method' //when clicked on wrapper i.e. parent of box trigger method function
},
render: function (PaintBoxModel) {
var paintBoxView = new PaintBoxView({ model: PaintBoxModel });
this.$el.find('#contents').append(paintBoxView.render().el);
return this;
},
method: function () {
console.log('method');
App.Vent.trigger('bodyclicked'); //trigger an event
}
});
Here is module for child elements
var Box = Backbone.View.extend({
events: {
'mousedown': 'mouseHoldDown',
'mouseup': 'removeMouseHoldDown'
},
initialize: function () {
this.timeoutId = 0;
App.Vent.on('bodyclicked', this.removeDeleteBtnShadow.bind(this)); //here I am listening to the click event when parent `#wrapper` is clicked
},
mouseHoldDown: function () {
this.timeoutId = setTimeout(this.addDeleteBtnShadow.bind(this), 500);
},
removeMouseHoldDown: function () {
clearTimeout(this.timeoutId);
},
addDeleteBtnShadow: function () {
this.$el.append('<a href="#" class="remove">X</a>');
this.$el.addClass('is-shadow');
},
removeDeleteBtnShadow: function () {
this.$el.find('.remove').remove();
this.$el.removeClass('is-shadow');
}
});