How to prevent the popover div for hiding on clicking inside it for twitter bootstrap "dismissible popover"(data-trigger="focus")?

Asked 25/12, 2014 at 15:37 Answered 30/9, 2020 at 15:51

javascript jquery html twitter-bootstrap bootstrap-popover

I have a a dismissible popover(data-trigger="focus") with a text box inside it. But as soon as I click inside the text box to type it dissappear because of the "data-trigger="focus". How do I make the div intelligently not disappear on click inside it? Here is my html :

  <head><script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js" ></script>
    <script src="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script></head>
<body><div><a class="BookAppButton" href="" data-toggle="popover" data-html="true" data-placement="bottom" data-trigger="focus">Click Here</a></div></body>

Here is my jquery :

    $(document).ready(function(){
$('.BookAppButton').click(function(event){
    event.preventDefault();
    console.log("Button Clicked..");
});
$('.BookAppButton').popover({
        title : '',
        html : 'true',
    content:'<div style="border:black 2px solid"><p>Enter name : <input type="text"></input></p></div>'
    });
});

This is my jsfiddle link : http://jsfiddle.net/3g3o4xhw/

I am at my wits end.. please help.. Thanks in advance.

Joly answered 25/12, 2014 at 15:37 Comment(0)

Clicks on the popover are hiding that popover because they are stealing the browser's focus. As soon as the button loses focus, the popover will be hidden (because we've set data-trigger="focus").

To address exact question you asked:

prevent the popover div for hiding on clicking inside it for twitter bootstrap “dismissible popover”(data-trigger=“focus”)?

The simplest way to fix this is to prevent clicks inside the popover from stealing focus by:

Adding an event listener to catch clicks inside the popover
Calling preventDefault() on the caught event

This will stop the focus from being stolen, and so stop the popover from being closed.

Note: We need to add the event listener on mousedown rather than click, because that is when the focus is set by the browser.

A more in-depth explanation of why we use mousedown and preventDefault() can be found on this StackOverflow answer: Prevent firing focus event when clicking on div

$(function() {
  $('[data-toggle="popover"]').popover()
})

$('body')
  .on('mousedown', '.popover', function(e) {
    console.log("clicked inside popover")
    e.preventDefault()
  });

<html>

<body>
  <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
  <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
  <a tabindex="0" class="btn btn-danger" data-toggle="popover" data-trigger="focus" title="Dismissible" data-content="Clicks in here won't steal focus">
    Dismissible popover
  </a>
</body>
</html>

Sosa answered 28/2, 2018 at 9:22 Comment(1)

Thank you! I have highcharts inside a bootstrap popover, and it doesn't close on a mouse click, but it starting closing on tap (mobile) recently (even though I didn't change the code). This method worked perfectly to bring it back to desired behavior. – Philippine 5/11, 2022 at 6:25

This code works for me, you can dismiss the popover upon any condition by calling preventDefault() method.

var closePopOver=true;
    $('[data-toggle="popover"]').popover({
        html: true,
        title: '',
        content: function () {
            return 'Your Html Here';
        }
    }).on('hide.bs.popover', function (hideEvent) {
        if (!closePopOver) {
            hideEvent.preventDefault();
        }
    });

Logrolling answered 30/9, 2020 at 15:51 Comment(0)

You should use tigger: 'click'.

$('.BookAppButton').popover({
        title : '',
        html : 'true',
    trigger: 'click',
    content:'<div style="border:black 2px solid"><p>Enter name : <input type="text"></input></p></div>'
    });
});

Maracanda answered 25/12, 2014 at 22:21 Comment(0)

Instead of

data-trigger="focus"

you should use

data-trigger="'focus'"

for AngularUI Bootstrap version 2.0 and above.

Douglass answered 22/2, 2017 at 5:47 Comment(0)

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