Thursday, October 29, 2015

JavaScript: Opening HTML dropdown panel on MouseOver using JavaScript.

There could be a scenario where you have to open Dropdown panel on ‘mouseover’. It could become more irritating if you don't do it right. I got a JavaScript method to do that.

The code is below and demo could be seen here. (https://jsfiddle.net/SiddharthMishra/kzdkpmvq/1/embedded/result/)

You can play with it by using JSFiddle.

JSFiddle:


HTML Code

We have created a simple HTML Dorpdown element here.

<select id="actionList">
       <option action="">ACTIONS</option>
       <option action="add">ADD NEW</option>
<option action="edit">EDIT</option>
</select>


JavaScript Code: 

We will add JavaScript methods to ‘ onmouseover ’ and ‘onmouseleave’ events.

 
var actionList = document.getElementById("actionList");

actionList.onchange = 
function () { templateAction(templateActionList); }

actionList.onmouseover = 
function () { selectElementMouseover(actionList); }

actionList.onmouseleave = 
function () { selectElementMouseleave(actionList); }

function selectElementMouseover(element) {
    fireEvent(element, "mousedown");
    fireEvent(element, "mouseup");
}
 
function selectElementMouseleave(element) {
    fireEvent(element, "mousedown");
}


Now below method will take care of the rest:
// To fire any event from JavaScript.
function fireEvent(node, eventName) {
    var doc;
    if (node.ownerDocument) {
        doc = node.ownerDocument;
    } else if (node.nodeType == 9) {
        doc = node;
    } else {
        throw new Error("Invalid node passed to fireEvent: " + node.id);
    }
 
    if (node.dispatchEvent) {
        var eventClass = "";
 
        // Different events have different event classes.
        switch (eventName) {
            case "click"// 'click' works correctly in Safari. 
                          // For other we should use 'mousedown' or 'mouseup'.
            case "mousedown":
            case "mouseup":
                eventClass = "MouseEvents";
                break;
 
            case "focus":
            case "change":
            case "blur":
            case "select":
                eventClass = "HTMLEvents";
                break;
 
            default:
                throw "fireEvent: Couldn't find an event class for event '" 
                        + eventName + "'.";
                break;
        }
        var event = doc.createEvent(eventClass);
 
        var bubbles = eventName == "change" ? false : true;

        // All events created as bubbling and cancelable.
        event.initEvent(eventName, bubbles, true); 
 
        event.synthetic = true
        node.dispatchEvent(event, true);
    } else if (node.fireEvent) {
        var event = doc.createEventObject();
        event.synthetic = true
        node.fireEvent("on" + eventName, event);
    }
};


Reference: http://jsfiddle.net/mendesjuan/rHMCy/4/

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