How to dismiss a Twitter Bootstrap popover by clic

Question

Can we get popovers to be dismissable in the same way as modals, ie. make them close when user clicks somewhere outside of them?

Unfortunately I can't just use real modal instead of popover, because modal means position:fixed and that would be no popover anymore. :(

Answer 1

I've tried many of the previous answers, really nothing works for me but this solution did:

https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/javascript/#dismiss-on-next-click

They recommend to use anchor tag not button and take care of role="button" + data-trigger="focus" + tabindex="0" attributes.

Ex:

<a tabindex="0" class="btn btn-lg btn-danger" role="button" data-toggle="popover" 
data-trigger="focus" title="Dismissible popover" data-content="amazing content">
Dismissible popover</a>

Answer 2

None of supposed high-voted solutions worked for me correctly. Each leads to a bug when after opening and closing (by clicking on other elements) the popover for the first time, it doesn't open again, until you make two clicks on the triggering link instead of one.

So i modified it slightly:

$(document).on('click', function (e) {
    var
        $popover,
        $target = $(e.target);

    //do nothing if there was a click on popover content
    if ($target.hasClass('popover') || $target.closest('.popover').length) {
        return;
    }

    $('[data-toggle="popover"]').each(function () {
        $popover = $(this);

        if (!$popover.is(e.target) &&
            $popover.has(e.target).length === 0 &&
            $('.popover').has(e.target).length === 0)
        {
            $popover.popover('hide');
        } else {
            //fixes issue described above
            $popover.popover('toggle');
        }
    });
})

Answer 3

According to http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#popovers,

<button type="button" class="popover-dismiss" data-toggle="popover" title="Dismissible popover" data-content="Popover Content">Dismissible popover</button>

Use the focus trigger to dismiss popovers on the next click that the user makes.

$('.popover-dismiss').popover({
    trigger: 'focus'
})

Answer 4

I made a jsfiddle to show you how to do it:

http://jsfiddle.net/3yHTH/

The idea is to show the popover when you click the button and to hide the popover when you click outside the button.

HTML

<a id="button" href="#" class="btn btn-danger">Click for popover</a>

JS

$('#button').popover({
    trigger: 'manual',
    position: 'bottom',
    title: 'Example',
    content: 'Popover example for SO'
}).click(function(evt) {
    evt.stopPropagation();
    $(this).popover('show');
});

$('html').click(function() {
    $('#button').popover('hide');
});

Answer 5

I just remove other active popovers before the new popover is shown (bootstrap 3):

$(".my-popover").popover();

$(".my-popover").on('show.bs.popover',function () {
    $('.popover.in').remove();
});              

Answer 6

Try this, this will hide by clicking outside.

$('body').on('click', function (e) {
    $('[data-toggle="popover"]').each(function () {
    //the 'is' for buttons that trigger popups
    //the 'has' for icons within a button that triggers a popup
    if (!$(this).is(e.target) && $(this).has(e.target).length === 0 && $('.popover').has(e.target).length === 0) {
    $(this).popover('hide');
    }
    });
});