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

jQuery(':not(.popup-marker)').once().click(function(){
   jQuery('.popup-marker').hide(); 
});

Answer 2

For some reason none of the other solutions here worked for me. However, after a lot of troubleshooting, I finally arrived at this method which works perfectly (for me at least).

$('html').click(function(e) {
  if( !$(e.target).parents().hasClass('popover') ) {
    $('#popover_parent').popover('destroy');
  }
});

In my case I was adding a popover to a table and absolutely positioning it above/below the td that was clicked. The table selection was handled by jQuery-UI Selectable so I'm not sure if that was interfering. However whenever I clicked inside the popover my click handler which targeted $('.popover') never worked and the event handling was always delegated to the $(html) click handler. I'm fairly new to JS so perhaps I'm just missing something?

Anyways I hope this helps someone!

Answer 3

I had a similar need, and found this great little extension of the Twitter Bootstrap Popover by Lee Carmichael, called BootstrapX - clickover. He also has some usage examples here. Basically it will change the popover into an interactive component which will close when you click elsewhere on the page, or on a close button within the popover. This will also allow multiple popovers open at once and a bunch of other nice features.

Plugin can be found here.

Usage example

<button rel="clickover" data-content="Show something here. 
    <button data-dismiss='clickover'
    >Close Clickover</button>"
>Show clickover</button>

javascript:

// load click overs using 'rel' attribute
$('[rel="clickover"]').clickover();

Answer 4

Try data-trigger="focus" instead of "click".

This solved the problem for me.

Answer 5

I came up with this:

My scenario included more popovers on the same page, and hiding them just made them invisible and because of that, clicking on items behind the popover was not possible. The idea is to mark the specific popover-link as 'active' and then you can simply 'toggle' the active popover. Doing so will close the popover completely.

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

$('.popover-link').popover().on 'shown.bs.popover', ->
  $(this).addClass('toggled')

$('.popover-link').popover().on 'hidden.bs.popover', ->
  $(this).removeClass('toggled')

$("body").on "click", (e) ->
  $openedPopoverLink = $(".popover-link.toggled")
  if $openedPopoverLink.has(e.target).length == 0
    $openedPopoverLink.popover "toggle"
    $openedPopoverLink.removeClass "toggled"

Answer 6

This question was also asked here and my answer provides not only a way to understand jQuery DOM traversal methods but 2 options for handling the closing of popovers by clicking outside.

Open multiple popovers at once or one popover at a time.

Plus these small code snippets can handle the closing of buttons containing icons!

https://stackoverflow.com/a/14857326/1060487