Show/Hide Pop-Up with JS, form

Question

I have a form, when the user click on send..the fields are sent to AJAX and then to php function. After this, open a pop-up/div.

I'm trying to do, when user click somewhere on the site, this div is hide. But isn't working, any ideas?

HTML Form:

<form id="contactForm">
                <select id="contactFormSelect">
                  <option value="General" selected>General</option>
                  <option value="Support">Support</option>
                  <option value="Suggestions">Suggestions</option>
                  <option value="Jobs">Jobs</option>
                  <option value="Press">Press</option>
                  <option value="Founder">Founder</option>
                </select>
                <br />
                <input id="contactForm" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Your name"><br />
                <input id="contactForm" type="text" name="email" placeholder="Your email"><br />
                <input id="contactForm" type="text" name="subject" placeholder="Subject"><br />
                <textarea id="write" name="textarea" placeholder="Write here"></textarea><br />
                <input id="submitForm" type="button" value="SEND" onclick="contactRequest(this);">
            </form>

HTML Pop-up/Div:

<div id="contactSent">
<div id="backgroundOpacity"></div>
<div class="contactSent">
    <div id="contactSentFirst">
        Thank you!
    </div>
    <div id="contactSentSecond">
        Your message has been successfully sent. We will contact you very soon!
    </div>
</div>
<div id="buttonOK">
    Ok
</div>
</div>  

JS:

function contactRequest(elem)
{   
var postData = $('#contactForm').serialize();
    postData += "&textarea="+$('#write').val();
    postData += "&selectedOption="+$('#contactFormSelect').val();;

if($(elem).parent().children('#contactForm').val() != ''){      
    $.ajax(
    {
          url: "/newcontact/pedido-contato/",
          type: "POST",
          data: postData
    });

}
$('#contactSent').show();
}


$('body').click(function(){
$('#contactSent').hide();
});

Answer 1

The pop-up div element you're talking about sounds like the bootstrap modal element. Perhaps you should take a look here: http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#modals . Modals are really easy to implement and they give documentation for it on the site. Hope this helps

Answer 2

It seems that your backgroundOpacity element is on top of the body tag. Try to assign the event to it.

$('#backgroundOpacity').click(function(){
    $('#contactSent').hide();
});