Close a div when clicked anywhere on page

Question

I have a search box that selects users and sends them into a div on my page which obviously opens with the script. But I would like the box to close if the user clicks outside of the div anywhere on my sites page. I've played around with a few ideas but haven't got what I'm looking for. HTML ```

``` REQUEST FUNCTION ``` function dosearch(text,containerid){ if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest(); } else { xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() { if (xmlhttp.readyState==4) { //alert(xmlhttp.responseText); document.getElementById(containerid).innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText; } } xmlhttp.open("GET","include/search.people.php?t="+text,true); xmlhttp.send(); } ```

Accepted Answer

In jquery You can do something like this:

```
$(document).click(function(){
   $('.searchresults').hide();   
});

$('.searchresults').click(function(e){
    e.stopPropagation();
});
```

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Close a div when clicked anywhere on page

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