How to detect click outside an element in JavaScript (without jQuery)?
Hello everyone! I'm a beginner frontend developer and I've encountered a typical task: I need to close a dropdown menu (or modal window) when clicking outside of it. \n\nI'm using pure JavaScript without jQuery. I have an HTML structure where clicking a button opens a `
`. The problem is that I can't figure out how to detect the click event specifically outside this block to call its close function. \n\nHere's simplified code:\n\n```html\n\n\n```\n\n```javascript\nconst menuBtn = document.getElementById('menuBtn');\nconst dropdown = document.getElementById('myDropdown');\n\nmenuB
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