For the animation container - you can add your own overlay to handle the click event (or handle it otherwise, e.g., with JS) in order to hide the animation container. You can find a similar example in this thread (see my post from 18 Aug 2020, just add the desired click handler to call the Cancel method in this sample).
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Marin Bratanov
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