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The beforetoggle
event of the HTMLElement
interface fires on a popover or <dialog>
element just before it is shown or hidden.
event.oldState
property will be set to closed
and the event.newState
property will be set to open
.event.oldState
will be open
and event.newState
will be closed
.This event is cancelable when an element is toggled to open ("show") but not when the element is closing.
Among other things, this event can be used to:
Use the event name in methods like addEventListener()
, or set an event handler property.
addEventListener("beforetoggle", (event) => { })
onbeforetoggle = (event) => { }
Event type Examples
The examples below demonstrates how the beforetoggle
event might be used for a popover or <dialog>
element. The same examples would work similarly on the other element types.
This example shows how to listen for the beforetoggle
event and log the result.
The HTML consists of a popover and a button for toggling it open and closed.
<button popovertarget="mypopover">Toggle the popover</button>
<div id="mypopover" popover>Popover content</div>
#log {
height: 150px;
overflow: scroll;
padding: 0.5rem;
border: 1px solid black;
}
const logElement = document.querySelector("#log");
function log(text) {
logElement.innerText = `${logElement.innerText}${text}\n`;
logElement.scrollTop = logElement.scrollHeight;
}
JavaScript
The code gets adds an event listener for the beforetoggle
event and logs the state.
const popover = document.getElementById("mypopover");
popover.addEventListener("beforetoggle", (event) => {
if (event.newState === "open") {
log("Popover is about to be shown");
} else {
log("Popover is about to be hidden");
}
});
Result Prevent a popover opening
The beforetoggle
event is cancelable if fired when opening an element.
Below we show how a popover that might first check if it is allowed to open, and if not, call Event.preventDefault()
to cancel the event. In this example we use a button to set whether the popover can open or not: in a more "full featured" example this might depend on the application state, or the data in the popover being ready to display.
The HTML consists of a popover, a button for toggling it open and closed, and a button for setting whether the button can be opened.
<button popovertarget="mypopover">Toggle the popover</button>
<button id="allow_button"></button>
<div id="mypopover" popover>Popover content</div>
#log {
height: 150px;
overflow: scroll;
padding: 0.5rem;
border: 1px solid black;
}
const logElement = document.querySelector("#log");
function log(text) {
logElement.innerText = `${logElement.innerText}${text}\n`;
logElement.scrollTop = logElement.scrollHeight;
}
JavaScript
First we set up the code to simulate a state where we don't want to allow the popover to open. This is represented by the variable allowOpen
, which is toggled when the associated button is clicked.
const allowButton = document.getElementById("allow_button");
let allowOpen = true;
function toggleState() {
allowOpen = !allowOpen;
allowButton.innerText = allowOpen ? "Open Allowed" : "Open Prevented";
}
toggleState();
allowButton.addEventListener("click", (event) => {
toggleState();
});
The code gets adds an event listener for the beforetoggle
event. If allowOpen
is false then preventDefault()
is called, which stops the popup from opening.
const popover = document.getElementById("mypopover");
popover.addEventListener("beforetoggle", (event) => {
if (event.newState === "open") {
if (allowOpen) {
log("Popover is about to be shown");
} else {
log("Popover opening prevented");
event.preventDefault();
}
} else {
log("Popover is about to be hidden");
}
});
Result A note on beforetoggle event coalescing
If multiple beforetoggle
events are fired before the event loop has a chance to cycle, only a single event will be fired. This is referred to as "event coalescing".
For example:
popover.addEventListener("beforetoggle", () => {
// â¦
});
popover.showPopover();
popover.hidePopover();
// `beforetoggle` only fires once
Other examples
HTMLDialogElement
popover
HTML global attributetoggle
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