How can I close a Twitter Bootstrap popover with a

Question

I'm currently using popovers with Twitter Bootstrap, initiated like this:

$('.popup-marker').popover({
        html: true,
        trigger: 'manual'
    }).click(function(e) {
        $(this).popover('toggle');
        e.preventDefault();
    });

As you can see, they're triggered manually, and clicking on .popup-marker (which is a div with a background image) toggles a popover. This works great, but I'd like to also be able to close the popover with a click anywhere else on the page (but not on the popover itself!).

I've tried a few different things, including the following, but with no results to show for it:

$('body').click(function(e) {
    $('.popup-marker').popover('hide');
});

How can I close the popover with a click anywhere else on the page, but not with a click onthe popover itself?

Answer 1

Presuming that only one popover can be visible at any time, you can use a set of flags to mark when there's a popover visible, and only then hide them.

If you set the event listener on the document body, it will trigger when you click the element marked with 'popup-marker'. So you'll have to call stopPropagation() on the event object. And apply the same trick when clicking on the popover itself.

Below is a working JavaScript code that does this. It uses jQuery >= 1.7

jQuery(function() {
    var isVisible = false;

    var hideAllPopovers = function() {
       $('.popup-marker').each(function() {
            $(this).popover('hide');
        });  
    };

    $('.popup-marker').popover({
        html: true,
        trigger: 'manual'
    }).on('click', function(e) {
        // if any other popovers are visible, hide them
        if(isVisible) {
            hideAllPopovers();
        }

        $(this).popover('show');

        // handle clicking on the popover itself
        $('.popover').off('click').on('click', function(e) {
            e.stopPropagation(); // prevent event for bubbling up => will not get caught with document.onclick
        });

        isVisible = true;
        e.stopPropagation();
    });


    $(document).on('click', function(e) {
        hideAllPopovers();
        isVisible = false;
    });
});

http://jsfiddle.net/AFffL/539/

The only caveat is that you won't be able to open 2 popovers at the same time. But I think that would be confusing for the user, anyway :-)

Answer 2

I give all my popovers anchors the class activate_popover. I activate them all at once onload

$('body').popover({selector: '.activate-popover', html : true, container: 'body'})

to get the click away functionality working I use (in coffee script):

$(document).on('click', (e) ->
  clickedOnActivate = ($(e.target).parents().hasClass("activate-popover") || $(e.target).hasClass("activate-popover"))
  clickedAway = !($(e.target).parents().hasClass("popover") || $(e.target).hasClass("popover"))
if clickedAway && !clickedOnActivate
  $(".popover.in").prev().popover('hide')
if clickedOnActivate 
  $(".popover.in").prev().each () ->
    if !$(this).is($(e.target).closest('.activate-popover'))
      $(this).popover('hide')
)

Which works perfectly fine with bootstrap 2.3.1

Answer 3

The accepted solution gave me some issues (clicking on the '.popup-marker' element of the opened popover made the popovers not work afterwards). I came up with this other solution that works perfectly for me and it's quite simple (I'm using Bootstrap 2.3.1):

$('.popup-marker').popover({
    html: true,
    trigger: 'manual'
}).click(function(e) {
    $('.popup-marker').not(this).popover('hide');
    $(this).popover('toggle');
});
$(document).click(function(e) {
    if (!$(e.target).is('.popup-marker, .popover-title, .popover-content')) {
        $('.popup-marker').popover('hide');
    }
});

UPDATE: This code works with Bootstrap 3 as well!

Answer 4

This one works like a charm and I use it.

It will open the popover when you click and if you click again it will close, also if you click outside of the popover the popover will be closed.

This also works with more than 1 popover.

    function hideAllPopovers(){
    $('[data-toggle="popover"]').each(function() {
        if ($(this).data("showing") == "true"){
            $(this).data("showing", "false");
            $(this).popover('hide');                
        }
    });
}
$('[data-toggle="popover"]').each(function() {
        $(this).popover({
            html: true,
            trigger: 'manual'
        }).click(function(e) {
            if ($(this).data("showing") !=  "true"){
                hideAllPopovers();
                $(this).data("showing", "true");
                $(this).popover('show');
            }else{
                hideAllPopovers();
            }
            e.stopPropagation();
        });
});

$(document).click(function(e) {
    hideAllPopovers();
});

Answer 5

If you're trying to use twitter bootstrap popover with pjax, this worked for me:

App.Utils.Popover = {

  enableAll: function() {
    $('.pk-popover').popover(
      {
        trigger: 'click',
        html : true,
        container: 'body',
        placement: 'right',
      }
    );
  },

  bindDocumentClickEvent: function(documentObj) {
    $(documentObj).click(function(event) {
      if( !$(event.target).hasClass('pk-popover') ) {
        $('.pk-popover').popover('hide');
      }
    });
  }

};

$(document).on('ready pjax:end', function() {
  App.Utils.Popover.enableAll();
  App.Utils.Popover.bindDocumentClickEvent(this);
});

Answer 6

@RayOnAir, I have same issue with previous solutions. I come close to @RayOnAir solution too. One thing that improved is close already opened popover when click on other popover marker. So my code is:

var clicked_popover_marker = null;
var popover_marker = '#pricing i';

$(popover_marker).popover({
  html: true,
  trigger: 'manual'
}).click(function (e) {
  clicked_popover_marker = this;

  $(popover_marker).not(clicked_popover_marker).popover('hide');
  $(clicked_popover_marker).popover('toggle');
});

$(document).click(function (e) {
  if (e.target != clicked_popover_marker) {
    $(popover_marker).popover('hide');
    clicked_popover_marker = null;
  }
});