jquery fancybox - prevent close on click outside o

Question

I'm using the Fancybox plugin for my modal windows. It seems like no matter what options I use I can't prevent the fancybox modal window from closing when the user clicks outside of the fancybox modal window (grayed out area).

Is there a way to force the user to click the X or a button that I trigger the close event? This seems like it should be simple so I'm hoping I'm just reading the examples wrong.

I've tried hideOnContentClick: false but that doesn't seem to be working for me. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Just use the following code:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $("a#Mypopup").fancybox({
        "hideOnOverlayClick" : false, // prevents closing clicking OUTSIE fancybox
        "hideOnContentClick" : false, // prevents closing clicking INSIDE fancybox
        "enableEscapeButton" : false  // prevents closing pressing ESCAPE key
  });
  $("a#Mypopup").trigger('click');
});

<a id="Mypopup" href="images/popup.png"><img alt="Mypopup" src="images/popup.png" /></a>

Answer 2

I'm using fancybox 1.3.1, if you wanna force the user to close the modal box ONLY by clicking on the button, you can specify in the configuration:

<script type="text/javascript">
  $(document).ready(function() {
    $("#your_link").fancybox({
      'hideOnOverlayClick':false,
      'hideOnContentClick':false
    });
  });
</script>

Answer 3

There is no option for that. You will have to change the source code.

In jquery.fancybox-1.2.1.js you need to comment out (or delete) line 341 in the _finish method:

//$("#fancy_overlay, #fancy_close").bind("click", $.fn.fancybox.close);

Answer 4

I ran into the same "issue". This worked for me:

$("#fancybox-overlay").unbind();

Answer 5

If you are using Fancybox 1.2.6 (like I am on a project), I found out the option hideOnOverlayClick. You can set it to false (e.g. hideOnOverlayClick: false).

I found this option while exploring to modify the code based on the suggestion givn by Scott Dowding.

Answer 6

I had to use a combination of all of the above answers, as all of them include errors. Certainly, no editing of the source code is necessary.

In my case, I wanted to disable overlay clicks closing the box as I had a progression of questions that would be displayed sequentially inside the fancybox, so I didn't want users to lose their progress by accidentally clicking on the overlay, but wanted to keep that functionality elsewhere on the page.

Use this to disable it:

$(".fancybox-overlay").unbind();

Use this to re-enable it:

$(".fancybox-overlay").bind("click", $.fancybox.close);