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

I would set the focus to the newly created pop-over and remove it on blur. That way it's not needed to check which element of the DOM has been clicked and the pop-over can be clicked, and selected too: it will not lose its focus and will not disappear.

The code:

    $('.popup-marker').popover({
       html: true,
       trigger: 'manual'
    }).click(function(e) {
       $(this).popover('toggle');
       // set the focus on the popover itself 
       jQuery(".popover").attr("tabindex",-1).focus();
       e.preventDefault();
    });

    // live event, will delete the popover by clicking any part of the page
    $('body').on('blur','.popover',function(){
       $('.popup-marker').popover('hide');
    });

Answer 2

I found this to be a modified solution of pbaron's suggestion above, because his solution activated the popover('hide') on all elements with class 'popup-marker'. However, when you're using popover() for html content instead of the data-content, as I'm doing below, any clicks inside that html popup actually activate the popover('hide'), which promptly closes the window. This method below iterates through each .popup-marker element and discovers first if the parent is related to the .popup-marker's id that was clicked, and if so then does not hide it. All other divs are hidden...

        $(function(){
            $('html').click(function(e) {
                // this is my departure from pbaron's code above
                // $('.popup-marker').popover('hide');
                $('.popup-marker').each(function() {
                    if ($(e.target).parents().children('.popup-marker').attr('id')!=($(this).attr('id'))) {
                        $(this).popover('hide');
                    }
                });
            });

            $('.popup-marker').popover({
                html: true,
                // this is where I'm setting the html for content from a nearby hidden div with id="html-"+clicked_div_id
                content: function() { return $('#html-'+$(this).attr('id')).html(); },
                trigger: 'manual'
            }).click(function(e) {
                $(this).popover('toggle');
                e.stopPropagation();
            });
        });

Answer 3

Here's my solution, for what it's worth:

// Listen for clicks or touches on the page
$("html").on("click.popover.data-api touchend.popover.data-api", function(e) {

  // Loop through each popover on the page
  $("[data-toggle=popover]").each(function() {

    // Hide this popover if it's visible and if the user clicked outside of it
    if ($(this).next('div.popover:visible').length && $(".popover").has(e.target).length === 0) {
      $(this).popover("hide");
    }

  });
});

Answer 4

I like this, simple yet effective..

var openPopup;

$('[data-toggle="popover"]').on('click',function(){
    if(openPopup){
        $(openPopup).popover('hide');

    }
    openPopup=this;
});

Answer 5

Even though there are a lot of solutions here, i'd like to propose mine as well, i don't know if there is some solution up there that solves it all, but i tried 3 of them and they had issues, like clicking on the popover it self makes it hide, others that if i had another popover buttons clicked both/multiple popovers would still appear (like in the selected solution), How ever, This one fixed it all

var curr_popover_btn = null;
// Hide popovers function
function hide_popovers(e)
{
    var container = $(".popover.in");
    if (!container.is(e.target) // if the target of the click isn't the container...
        && container.has(e.target).length === 0) // ... nor a descendant of the container
    {
        if( curr_popover_btn != null )
        {
            $(curr_popover_btn).popover('hide');
            curr_popover_btn = null;
        }
        container.hide();
    }
}
// Hide popovers when out of focus
$('html').click(function(e) {
    hide_popovers(e);
});
$('.popover-marker').popover({
    trigger: 'manual'
}).click(function(e) {
    hide_popovers(e);
    var $popover_btns = $('.popover-marker');
    curr_popover_btn = this;
    var $other_popover_btns = jQuery.grep($($popover_btns), function(popover_btn){
                return ( popover_btn !== curr_popover_btn );
            });
    $($other_popover_btns).popover('hide');
    $(this).popover('toggle');
    e.stopPropagation();
});

Answer 6

Here is the solution which worked very fine for me, if it can help :

/**
* Add the equals method to the jquery objects
*/
$.fn.equals = function(compareTo) {
  if (!compareTo || this.length !== compareTo.length) {
    return false;
  }
  for (var i = 0; i < this.length; ++i) {
    if (this[i] !== compareTo[i]) {
      return false;
    }
  }
  return true;
};

/**
 * Activate popover message for all concerned fields
 */
var popoverOpened = null;
$(function() { 
    $('span.btn').popover();
    $('span.btn').unbind("click");
    $('span.btn').bind("click", function(e) {
        e.stopPropagation();
        if($(this).equals(popoverOpened)) return;
        if(popoverOpened !== null) {
            popoverOpened.popover("hide");            
        }
        $(this).popover('show');
        popoverOpened = $(this);
        e.preventDefault();
    });

    $(document).click(function(e) {
        if(popoverOpened !== null) {
            popoverOpened.popover("hide");   
            popoverOpened = null;
        }        
    });
});