Prevent popup from closing when you click outside popup

[arschmitz]

It would be nice if there was an option for the popups to have it stay open if you click outside the popup. Sometimes you may want the user to complete an action in the popup before it is closed.

[toddparker]

That's a good idea, but it's worth noting that we tie these into the history stack so the back button will still close the popup in it's current form.

[gabrielschulhof]

This is related to #4649.

[arschmitz]

History aside i think this would still be a good option because in some situations you may just want to stop the popup from being closed by accident. this way it would force them to actually hit a close button or something similar. I have a popup that is opened pragmatically. i don't mind the popup being closed by the user and am not worried about back button. i just want the user to have to click either close or next vs potentially closing by accident by clicking outside.

Also in regards to the backbutton issue here and on issue #4649 This option would solve #4649 in some situations (though not all) on devices without a physical back button (ios) in phonegap or standalone mode this would solve. (not sure how the physical back button works in phonegap in android??)

finally the situation @gabrielschulhof noted with a popup on a page with hash listening disabled and (if such an option existed) history not being tracked for popup just have it go back to last page in history this seems like what the expected result of such a sequence would be to me. and if this isnt the desired sequence then that would be up to the person creating the pages to handle properly.

i have a modified version of the popup widget working with both options i'm trying to polish up for fringe cases and it seems to work well if this is of any interest i'm happy to share. (i'm sure it would need some reworking before actually being used!)

[gabrielschulhof]

Absolutely! PRs always welcome!

[samikrc]

Interested in this as well. A modal popup dialog will be great. Agree w/ the comment from arschmitz.

[jaspermdegroot]

I am closing this ticket as a feature request and added a link to it here https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/wiki/Feature-Requests. We will reopen when we are going to work on this.

Edit: In the meantime PR's are still welcome of course ! :-)

[bbarnell]

Yes, put me down for this enhancement as well. This is a show stopper for me.

[toddparker]

Re-opening for 1.3

[youradds]

Ah man, so this isn't actually possible yet then :( I was trying to submit a form via AJAX - and return an error message in the same block if an error was found. If not, it would show a "your message has been sent" ... but sounds like there is no way to stop a popup from closing after clicking a "submit" button in 1.2?

[gabrielschulhof]

Implemented in 352fb0b.

[Rameshwar007]

Thanks for solving popup overlay issue!