How to make Bootstrap's dropdown on hover?

Question

How can I make twitter bootstrap's menu dropdown be on hover instead of a click?

You can simple do this using pure css, http://stackoverflow.com/a/22365311/861607 — Sabri Aziri, Mar 12 '14 at 22:46

score 15 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 29 '17 at 14:00

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1.Hide dropdown-menu on mouseover.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('.nav li.dropdown').hover(function() {
        $(this).addClass('open');
    }, function() {
        $(this).removeClass('open');
    });
});

2.Hide dropdown-menu on click.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('.nav li.dropdown').hover(function() {
        $(this).addClass('open');
    });
});

http://jsfiddle.net/7yMsQ/1/

edited Jun 29 '17 at 14:00

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answered Nov 06 '12 at 12:29

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Also add `$('.nav li.dropdown').removeClass('open');` as the first line in the 2nd (closing) function, so that if you have multiple dropdowns it hides the others that may be open. – d-_-b Jan 10 '13 at 17:26

Yohn · Answer 2 · 2012-11-07T09:37:50.593

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heres a function I'm using to get the navbar dropdowns to slide down on hover instead of just popping in

$('.navbar .dropdown').hover(function() {
  $(this).find('.dropdown-menu').first().stop(true, true).delay(250).slideDown();
}, function() {
  $(this).find('.dropdown-menu').first().stop(true, true).delay(100).slideUp()
});

edited Nov 07 '12 at 09:37

answered Nov 06 '12 at 06:12

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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While How to make twitter bootstrap menu dropdown on hover rather than click has been upvoted a lot, with the newer versions of Bootstrap, no need to hack at it.

http://cameronspear.com/blog/twitter-bootstrap-dropdown-on-hover-plugin/ is a replacement for the existing dropdown.js, and lets you enable on hover. No CSS modifications required.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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answered Nov 06 '12 at 03:48

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score 3 · Answer 4 · answered May 16 '18 at 04:35

You can simply do this by using only css. In case of button dropdown.

   <div class="btn-group btn-hover-group">
      <a href="#" id="selected" class="btn btn-default editor-submit">Action 1</a>
      <a href="#" class="btn btn-default dropdown-toggle"></a>
      <ul class="dropdown-menu pull-right">
        <li><a href="#" id="all" class="editor-submit">Action 2</a></li>
        <li><a href="#" id="matching" class="editor-submit">Action 3</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>

Removed data-toggle="dropdown" from <a href="#" class="btn btn-default dropdown-toggle"></a>

.btn-hover-group > a:hover ~ ul{
 display:block;
}
.btn-hover-group > .dropdown-menu:hover{
 display:block;
}

I hope this will suffice your purpose.

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 18 '18 at 23:32

You could use a bootstrap 4 like this..

<div class="dropdown">
  <button class="dropbtn">Dropdown</button>
  <div class="dropdown-content">
    <a href="#">Link 1</a>
    <a href="#">Link 2</a>
    <a href="#">Link 3</a>
  </div>
</div>

then define the class property value following..it should work

.dropbtn {
    background-color: #4CAF50;
    color: white;
    padding: 16px;
    font-size: 16px;
    border: none;
}

.dropdown {
    position: relative;
    display: inline-block;
}

.dropdown-content {
    display: none;
    position: absolute;
    background-color: #f1f1f1;
    min-width: 160px;
    box-shadow: 0px 8px 16px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
    z-index: 1;
}

.dropdown-content a {
    color: black;
    padding: 12px 16px;
    text-decoration: none;
    display: block;
}
.dropdown:hover .dropdown-content {display: block;}

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