Close dialog on click (anywhere)

Question

Is there a default option to close a jQuery dialog by clicking somewhere on the screen instead of the close icon?

Answer 1

When creating a JQuery Dialog window, JQuery inserts a ui-widget-overlay class. If you bind a click function to that class to close the dialog, it should provide the functionality you are looking for.

Code will be something like this (untested):

$('.ui-widget-overlay').click(function() { $("#dialog").dialog("close"); });

Edit: The following has been tested for Kendo as well:

$('.k-overlay').click(function () {
            var popup = $("#dialogId").data("kendoWindow");
            if (popup)
                popup.close();
        });