Handling clicks on custom overlays

Q: How do I prevent page.press event from firing when the user clicks on a custom overlay?

A: By default, when we click on a custom overlay, page.press event also gets fired. There might be cases when you don’t want to do that.

page.press internally uses the browser’s onpointerup event. So in order to prevent that event from firing, we will have to stop the propagation of the same event (onpointerup) from the custom overlay.

So we recommend that you use the onpointerup event on the custom overlay instead of the onclick event:

PSPDFKit.load(options).then(instance => {
    const div = document.createElement("div");
    div.className = "overlay" // give some height and width to the div so that it's practically clickable.

    div.onpointerup = e => {
        // We need to call `e.stopPropogation()` stop the propagation of the onpointerup event and `page.press` event won't get fired.
        e.stopPropagation();

        // do what you wanted to do on click.
    }

    const item = new PSPDFKit.CustomOverlayItem({
      id: "id",
      node: div,
      pageIndex: 0,
      position: new PSPDFKit.Geometry.Point({ x: 50, y: 600 })
    });

    instance.setCustomOverlayItem(item);
})

This has been tested with PSPDFKit for Web 2019.5.4