Line 749 of modal.js seems to have the answer that, yes, mousedown events don't bubble out of a ModalWindow -- am I reading that correctly?
"<div class=\"w_content_1\" onmousedown=\"if (Wicket.Browser.isSafari()) { event.ignore = true; } else { Wicket.stopEvent(event); } \">"+ Thanks Andrew On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Andrew Geery <andrew.ge...@gmail.com>wrote: > I'm using the jQuery Multiselector ( > http://www.erichynds.com/jquery/jquery-ui-multiselect-widget/ ) with > Wicket 1.4.19 (via jqWicket 0.6). The multi-selector was straightforward > to integrate with Wicket and use on a regular page. > > Using it in a ModalWindow was a little trickier because you have to > manually add the JS + CSS to the header of the ModalWindow (which jqWicket > takes care of for you on a regular page). > > Here's my problem: > > When I click outside of a multi-selector component on a regular page, the > multiselector closes. However, when I click outside of a multi-selector in > the containing ModalWindow, it does not. > > I've traced the problem back to the following line in the multiselector > (the self.close() method simply closes/rolls up the multiselector options): > > $(document).bind('mousedown.multiselect', function (e) { > if (self._isOpen && !$.contains(self.menu[0], e.target) && > !$.contains(self.button[0], e.target) && e.target !== self.button[0]) { > self.close(); > } > }); > > I've verified that the mousedown bind does indeed happen in both the > regular page and in the ModalWindow. > > The difference is that, on a regular page, the handler function is called > when I click anywhere on the page (i.e., jQuery detects the mousdown > event). However, in the ModalWindow, the handler is not called when I > click in the ModalWindow (i.e., jQuery does not detect the mousedown event > in the context of the ModalWindow). To make things more interesting, the > handler is called if I click on the page *outside* of the ModalWindow. > > Is there anything in a ModalWindow that would make jQuery bind not work > for mousedown events that target the ModalWindow itself? > > Thanks > Andrew > >