How can I keep Bootstrap popovers alive while being hovered?

Question

I am using a Bootstrap popover to create a hover card showing user info, and I am triggering it on mouseover of a button. I want to keep this popover alive while the popover itself is being hovered, but it disappears as soon as the user stops hovering over the button. How can I do this?

$('#example').popover({
    html : true,
    trigger : 'manual',
    content : function() {
        return '<div class="box">Popover</div>';
    }
});

$(document).on('mouseover', '#example', function(){
    $('#example').popover('show');
});

$(document).on('mouseleave', '#example', function(){
    $('#example').popover('hide');
});

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.4/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@popperjs/core@2"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css"/>

<a href="#" id="example" class="btn btn-danger" rel="popover" >hover for popover</a>

you want to keep what alive? i hover over the button and it stayed opened? — David Chase, Apr 13 '13 at 16:19

Okezie · Answer 1 · 2020-07-30T17:18:39.813

Test with code snippet below:

Small modification (From the solution provided by vikas) to suit my use case.

Open popover on hover event for the popover button
Keep popover open when hovering over the popover box
Close popover on mouseleave for either the popover button, or the popover box.

$(".pop").popover({
    trigger: "manual",
    html: true,
    animation: false
  })
  .on("mouseenter", function() {
    var _this = this;
    $(this).popover("show");
    $(".popover").on("mouseleave", function() {
      $(_this).popover('hide');
    });
  }).on("mouseleave", function() {
    var _this = this;
    setTimeout(function() {
      if (!$(".popover:hover").length) {
        $(_this).popover("hide");
      }
    }, 300);
  });

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
  <link data-require="bootstrap-css@*" data-semver="3.2.0" rel="stylesheet" href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
  <script data-require="jquery@*" data-semver="2.1.1" src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script data-require="bootstrap@*" data-semver="3.2.0" src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/js/bootstrap.js"></script>

  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />

</head>

<body>
  <h2 class='text-primary'>Another Great "KISS" Bootstrap Popover example!</h2>
  <p class='text-muted'>KISS = Keep It Simple S....</p>

  <p class='text-primary'>Goal:</p>
  <ul>
    <li>Open popover on hover event for the popover button</li>
    <li>Keep popover open when hovering over the popover box</li>
    <li>Close popover on mouseleave for either the popover button, or the popover box.</li>
  </ul>

  <button type="button" class="btn btn-danger pop" data-container="body" data-toggle="popover" data-placement="right" data-content="Optional parameter: Skip if this was not requested<br>                                    A placement group is a logical grouping of instances within a single Availability                                     Zone. Using placement groups enables applications to get the full-bisection bandwidth                                     and low-latency network performance required for tightly coupled, node-to-node                                     communication typical of HPC applications.<br>                                    This only applies to cluster compute instances: cc2.8xlarge, cg1.4xlarge, cr1.8xlarge, hi1.4xlarge and hs1.8xlarge.<br>                                    More info: <a href=&quot;http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/placement-groups.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;>Click here...</a>"
    data-original-title="" title="">
    HOVER OVER ME
    </button>
  <br><br>
  <button type="button" class="btn btn-info pop" data-container="body" data-toggle="popover" data-placement="right" data-content="Optional parameter: Skip if this was not requested<br>                                    A placement group is a logical grouping of instances within a single Availability                                     Zone. Using placement groups enables applications to get the full-bisection bandwidth                                     and low-latency network performance required for tightly coupled, node-to-node                                     communication typical of HPC applications.<br>                                    This only applies to cluster compute instances: cc2.8xlarge, cg1.4xlarge, cr1.8xlarge, hi1.4xlarge and hs1.8xlarge.<br>                                    More info: <a href=&quot;http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/placement-groups.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;>Click here...</a>"
    data-original-title="" title="">
    HOVER OVER ME... Again!
    </button><br><br>
  <button type="button" class="btn btn-success pop" data-container="body" data-toggle="popover" data-placement="right" data-content="Optional parameter: Skip if this was not requested<br>                                    A placement group is a logical grouping of instances within a single Availability                                     Zone. Using placement groups enables applications to get the full-bisection bandwidth                                     and low-latency network performance required for tightly coupled, node-to-node                                     communication typical of HPC applications.<br>                                    This only applies to cluster compute instances: cc2.8xlarge, cg1.4xlarge, cr1.8xlarge, hi1.4xlarge and hs1.8xlarge.<br>                                    More info: <a href=&quot;http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/placement-groups.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;>Click here...</a>"
    data-original-title="" title="">
    Okay one more time... !
    </button>
  <br><br>
  <p class='text-info'>Hope that helps you... Drove me crazy for a while</p>
  <script src="script.js"></script>
</body>

</html>

This works perfectly, I did notice that there was a missing `;` in you second `$(_this).popover("hide")`. But thank you, it was so simple and clean! — scapegoat17, Feb 17 '14 at 19:43
This answer is amazing. Works great on BS3 as of May 2015 ^^ — degenerate, May 12 '15 at 19:27
I used it in a table and I added `container: 'body'` to the options because it made the cells shift. Great answer! — Alexander Derck, Jun 29 '16 at 13:30
The popover gets hidden if you enter it and then go back to the trigger element all before 300ms. To fix it, check if BOTH the popover and its trigger are :hover before hiding it in setTimeout. I'd also use setTimeout and the same approach on mouseleave the popover itself, to fix the flickering. — rzb, Oct 09 '16 at 07:31
Be sure to set `animation:false` to fix the flicker - check in the Plunker link I have above. It works perfectly for me. — Okezie, Oct 09 '16 at 08:10
this sadly does not work in the firefox. chrome is working fine. in FF the popover disappear when you hit the link element for the popover. It only stays open if you hover to the popover itself. — goldlife, Jun 30 '17 at 08:27
It works in firefox. Even just tested again on FF version 54.0, it still works well. Maybe you are looking for different functionality than what I was trying to solve. — Okezie, Jun 30 '17 at 16:14
It works for my first Popover but not for the second one, what can be done there? — Timo Güntner, Dec 22 '17 at 21:48
Nice, I love this code! Works great! Thanks! :-) .pop is your popover button/link that triggers the .popover box. — ivetame, Oct 06 '18 at 15:44
Thank you for the answer. I was using mouseout instead of mouseleave, which was causing troubles. Your answer pointed me to the solution. ... One thing though that I think I did better is to have the jQuery element in a variable and call `.popover` on it, which I think is better on performance side :) — pesho hristov, Feb 10 '23 at 16:39

score 86 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 01 '13 at 14:43

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I have came after another solution to this...here is the code

    $('.selector').popover({
        html: true,
        trigger: 'manual',
        container: $(this).attr('id'),
        placement: 'top',
        content: function () {
            $return = '<div class="hover-hovercard"></div>';
        }
    }).on("mouseenter", function () {
        var _this = this;
        $(this).popover("show");
        $(this).siblings(".popover").on("mouseleave", function () {
            $(_this).popover('hide');
        });
    }).on("mouseleave", function () {
        var _this = this;
        setTimeout(function () {
            if (!$(".popover:hover").length) {
                $(_this).popover("hide")
            }
        }, 100);
    });

answered Aug 01 '13 at 14:43

vikas devde

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It is important to add `animation: false` otherwise moving the mouse over the link repeatedly will cause it to not work correctly – jasop Aug 23 '13 at 05:50
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I have a small modification to your code @vikas (https://gist.github.com/Nitrodist/7913848). It rechecks the condition after 50ms so that it doesn't stay stuck open. That is, it continuously rechecks it every 50ms. – Nitrodist Dec 11 '13 at 16:41
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How can this be adapted this so it works on live elements just added to the document? – williamsowen Mar 28 '14 at 05:04
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Unfortunately, none of these solutions are working. I appreciate the effort and all the contributions. There are all steps in the right direction. However, the correct answer should not have been marked as correct answer and I have know idea how to change that especially for such an old topic. I have written a solution that seems like a robust solution. I am still testing it to smooth out some edges. I will continue it once I am 100% confident about it. – asiby Aug 26 '20 at 21:17

Wojtek Kruszewski · Answer 3 · 2015-03-24T13:15:03.347

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Here's my take: http://jsfiddle.net/WojtekKruszewski/Zf3m7/22/

Sometimes while moving mouse from popover trigger to actual popover content diagonally, you hover over elements below. I wanted to handle such situations – as long as you reach popover content before the timeout fires, you're safe (the popover won't disappear). It requires delay option.

This hack basically overrides Popover leave function, but calls the original (which starts timer to hide the popover). Then it attaches a one-off listener to mouseenter popover content element's.

If mouse enters the popover, the timer is cleared. Then it turns it listens to mouseleave on popover and if it's triggered, it calls the original leave function so that it could start hide timer.

var originalLeave = $.fn.popover.Constructor.prototype.leave;
$.fn.popover.Constructor.prototype.leave = function(obj){
  var self = obj instanceof this.constructor ?
    obj : $(obj.currentTarget)[this.type](this.getDelegateOptions()).data('bs.' + this.type)
  var container, timeout;

  originalLeave.call(this, obj);

  if(obj.currentTarget) {
    container = $(obj.currentTarget).siblings('.popover')
    timeout = self.timeout;
    container.one('mouseenter', function(){
      //We entered the actual popover – call off the dogs
      clearTimeout(timeout);
      //Let's monitor popover content instead
      container.one('mouseleave', function(){
        $.fn.popover.Constructor.prototype.leave.call(self, self);
      });
    })
  }
};

edited Mar 24 '15 at 13:15

answered Sep 02 '13 at 11:54

Wojtek Kruszewski

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Finding the container could be improved by using `container = self.$tip;` This way, the popover can even be found when the `container` property is set. There's a fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/dennis_c/xJc65/ – dbroeks Dec 05 '13 at 15:19
These both work except when you go from hovering over the popover back to hovering over the button the popover flashes/gets redisplayed. Being a noob could someone suggest a fix for that? I'd guess the 'mouseleave' function should check to see if the mouse is over the triggering button before doing it's thing? But I'm a bit lost in the way it's wired together. +1 for the jsfiddle – pferrel Mar 20 '14 at 16:51
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@pferrel i have solved this issue in my fork of @Wojtek_Kruszewski 's fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/HugeHugh/pN26d/ see the part that checks `if (!thisTip.is(':visible'))` before calling the `originalShow()` – FirstVertex Jul 30 '14 at 18:50
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If the popover is initialized with the option **`container: 'body',`** this solution will not work as expected. The variable `container` needs to be replaced with `self.$tip`. Check my answer for more details: http://stackoverflow.com/a/28731847/439427 – Rubens Mariuzzo Feb 25 '15 at 23:37
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Brilliant. This works for when using the 'selector' parameter, unlike the other answers. – jetlej Mar 23 '15 at 23:55
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Here is an improved version which fixes a bug when leaving and reentering the tip still hided it, and also fixes the scenario when the tip is attached to the body http://jsfiddle.net/Zf3m7/1499 – Zoltán Tamási Nov 25 '15 at 09:02

score 23 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 27 '15 at 07:44

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I think an easy way would be this:

$('.popover').each(function () {
                    var $this = $(this);
                    $this.popover({
                        trigger: 'hover',
                        content: 'Content Here',
                        container: $this
                    })
                });

This way the popover is created inside the target element itself. so when you move your mouse over the popover, it's still over the element. Bootstrap 3.3.2 works well with this. Older version may have some problems with animation, so you may want to disable "animation:false"

answered Jan 27 '15 at 07:44

Cu Lý

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I know this thread is old, but this is the best, cleanest solution in my opinion and should be ranked higher. The only caveat is that this would break, if you position the popover (in a weird way) "away" from the trigger element. But as long as the distance between the two is zero (e.g. they overlap), this works beautifully and does not require any custom JS. Thank you! – JohnGalt Dec 08 '19 at 07:01
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That is the best, clean, easiest solution so far. Should be ranked higher! I added `delay: { "hide": 400 }` to add some delay before hiding and it works great! – coorasse Jan 23 '20 at 13:28

score 16 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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I used the trigger set to hover and gave the container set to the #element and finally adding a placement of the box to right.

This should be your setup:

$('#example').popover({
    html: true,
    trigger: 'hover',
    container: '#example',
    placement: 'right',
    content: function () {
        return '<div class="box"></div>';
    }
});

and #example css needs position:relative; check the jsfiddle below:

https://jsfiddle.net/9qn6pw4p/1/

Edited

This fiddle has both links that work with no problems http://jsfiddle.net/davidchase03/FQE57/4/

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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hmm that works, can I use jquery ajax in `content` option, to take the content from server side..will that work or i need to do some extra work for that – vikas devde Apr 13 '13 at 16:44
@vikasdevde yes you can use `ajax` in the content but you need to setup up for that to work... please mark the answer right if it solved your `OP`.. so others can benefit – David Chase Apr 13 '13 at 16:46
but if we use the link itself as a container then the whole popover becomes a link....try it – vikas devde Apr 13 '13 at 16:52
if you put a link inside of the box it will still link out.. correct? – David Chase Apr 13 '13 at 16:58
but if you click anywhere on popover, it will take you to the href of the button.. – vikas devde Apr 13 '13 at 17:00
you are right...the links inside popover will work, but if you click anywhere inside popover it will take you to the link – vikas devde Apr 13 '13 at 17:02
so why not change the `a` to `button` then it wont matter? and change `.box` cursor to default... – David Chase Apr 13 '13 at 17:04
im not sure what the issue is right now? your question was to keep the popover box opened on hover? – David Chase Apr 13 '13 at 17:08
I have the solution now I can surround link with a `` tag, and I will call the popover on this span tag instead of `` tag... here is the working `http://jsfiddle.net/testtracker/FQE57/6/` – vikas devde Apr 13 '13 at 17:16
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None of the jsfiddle's work for me. Chrome Mar 20 2014. – pferrel Mar 20 '14 at 16:56
@DavidChase Can you show me how i start to do that?How to use ajax to bring data from a server.?I would like only how to start,because i'm not sure,please. – luis Aug 05 '17 at 01:56
@user455318 thanks, that worked perfectly. Thanks DavidChase for the original solution, a way more elegant solution. – Andrew Smith Jun 25 '19 at 18:25
Using the content parameter works even in Bootstrap 5 ! Thank you. – Omiod Sep 13 '21 at 09:36

score 11 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 24 '17 at 15:29

Here is a solution I devised that seems to work well while also allowing you to use the normal Bootstrap implementation for turning on all popovers.

Original fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/eXpressive/hfear592/

Ported to this question:

<a href="#" id="example" class="btn btn-danger" rel="popover" >hover for popover</a>

$('#example').popover({
    html : true,
    trigger : 'hover',
    content : function() {
        return '<div class="box"></div>';
    }
}).on('hide.bs.popover', function () {
    if ($(".popover:hover").length) {
      return false;
    }                
}); 

$('body').on('mouseleave', '.popover', function(){
    $('.popover').popover('hide');
});

This is the best answer! It avoids having to set `container` which may not be possible/desirable in certain cases (such as when popover container has to be something different, e.g. to escape parent overflow:hidden). — nirvana-msu, Mar 01 '21 at 20:35

score 7 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 11 '13 at 07:37

This is how I did with bootstrap popover with help of other bits around the net. Dynamically gets the title and content from die various products displayed on site. Each product or popover gets unique id. Popover will disappear when exiting the product( $this .pop) or the popover. Timeout is used where will display the popover until exit through product instead of popover.

$(".pop").each(function () {
        var $pElem = $(this);
        $pElem.popover(
            {
                html: true,
                trigger: "manual",
                title: getPopoverTitle($pElem.attr("id")),
                content: getPopoverContent($pElem.attr("id")),
                container: 'body',
                animation:false
            }
        );
    }).on("mouseenter", function () {
        var _this = this;
        $(this).popover("show");
        console.log("mouse entered");
        $(".popover").on("mouseleave", function () {
            $(_this).popover('hide');
        });
    }).on("mouseleave", function () {
        var _this = this;
        setTimeout(function () {
            if (!$(".popover:hover").length) {
                $(_this).popover("hide");
            }
        }, 100);
    });
    function getPopoverTitle(target) {
        return $("#" + target + "_content > h3.popover-title").html();
    };

    function getPopoverContent(target) {
        return $("#" + target + "_content > div.popover-content").html();
    };

This will also work if the popover is not a child of the target element. +1 — Taha Paksu, Mar 05 '15 at 13:18

score 6 · Answer 8 · edited Dec 22 '20 at 13:52

I agree that the best way is to use the one given by: David Chase, Cu Ly, and others that the simplest way to do this is to use the container: $(this) property as follows:

$(selectorString).each(function () {
  var $this = $(this);
  $this.popover({
    html: true,
    placement: "top",
    container: $this,
    trigger: "hover",
    title: "Popover",
    content: "Hey, you hovered on element"
  });
});

I want to point out here that the popover in this case will inherit all properties of the current element. So, for example, if you do this for a .btn element(bootstrap), you won't be able to select text inside the popover. Just wanted to record that since I spent quite some time banging my head on this.

Too bad Bootstrap does not allow `data-container="this"` so this could be initialized without additional `each()`... — Wirone, Dec 22 '20 at 13:52

score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Jan 08 '14 at 04:18

Vikas answer works perfectly for me, here I also add support for the delay (show / hide).

var popover = $('#example');
var options = {
    animation : true,
    html: true,
    trigger: 'manual',
    placement: 'right',
    delay: {show: 500, hide: 100}
};   
popover
    .popover(options)
    .on("mouseenter", function () {

        var t = this;
        var popover = $(this);    
        setTimeout(function () {

            if (popover.is(":hover")) {

                popover.popover("show");
                popover.siblings(".popover").on("mouseleave", function () {
                    $(t).popover('hide');
                });
            }
        }, options.delay.show);
    })
    .on("mouseleave", function () {
        var t = this;
        var popover = $(this);

        setTimeout(function () {
            if (popover.siblings(".popover").length && !popover.siblings(".popover").is(":hover")) {
                $(t).popover("hide")
            }
        }, options.delay.hide);
    });

Also please pay attention I changed:

if (!$(".popover:hover").length) {

with:

if (popover.siblings(".popover").length && !popover.siblings(".popover").is(":hover")) {

so that it references exactly at that opened popover, and not any other (since now, through the delay, more than 1 could be open at the same time)

The comment I did at the end is actually not right when using container: body, if so still gotta use Vikas' solution for that one line — user1993198, Jan 08 '14 at 08:12

score 1 · Answer 10 · answered Feb 25 '15 at 23:36

The chosen answer works but will fail if the popover is initialized with the body as the container.

$('a').popover({ container: 'body' });

A solution based on the chosen answer is the following code that needs to be placed before using the popover.

var originalLeave = $.fn.popover.Constructor.prototype.leave;
$.fn.popover.Constructor.prototype.leave = function(obj) {
    var self = obj instanceof this.constructor ? obj : $(obj.currentTarget)[this.type](this.getDelegateOptions()).data('bs.' + this.type);
    originalLeave.call(this, obj);

    if (obj.currentTarget) {
        self.$tip.one('mouseenter', function() {
            clearTimeout(self.timeout);
            self.$tip.one('mouseleave', function() {
                $.fn.popover.Constructor.prototype.leave.call(self, self);
            });
        })
    }
};

The change is minimal using self.$tip instead of traversing the DOM expecting the popover to be always a siblings of the element.

score 1 · Answer 11 · answered Apr 12 '20 at 03:52

I recently needed to get this working with KO and the above solutions didn't work well when having a delay on show and hide. The below should fix this. Based on how bootstrap tooltips work. Hope this helps someone.

var options = {
                delay: { show: 1000, hide: 50 },
                trigger: 'manual',                      
                html: true
            };
var $popover = $(element).popover(options);

$popover.on('mouseenter', function () { // This is entering the triggering element
    var self = this;

    clearTimeout(self.timeout);
    self.hoverState = 'in';

    self.timeout = setTimeout(function () {
        if (self.hoverState == 'in') {
            $(self).popover("show");

            $(".popover, .popover *").on('mouseover', function () { // This is moving over the popover
                clearTimeout(self.timeout);
            });                                                                 

            $(".popover").on('mouseleave', function () { // This is leaving the popover
                self.timeout = setTimeout(function () {
                    if (self.hoverState == 'out') {
                        $(self).popover('hide');
                    }
                }, options.delay.hide);
            });
        }
    }, options.delay.show);
}).on('mouseleave', function (event) { // This is leaving the triggering element
    var self = this;

    clearTimeout(self.timeout);
    self.hoverState = 'out';

    self.timeout = setTimeout(function () {                             
        if (self.hoverState == 'out') {
            $(self).popover('hide');
        }

    }, options.delay.hide);
});

Adrian Enache · Answer 12 · 2020-11-11T09:15:28.830

I know I'm kinda late to the party but I was looking for a solution for this..and I bumped into this post. Here is my take on this, maybe it will help some of you.

The html part:

<button type="button" class="btn btn-lg btn-danger" data-content="test" data-placement="right" data-toggle="popover" title="Popover title" >Hover to toggle popover</button><br>
// with custom html stored in a separate element, using "data-target"
<button type="button" class="btn btn-lg btn-danger" data-target="#custom-html" data-placement="right" data-toggle="popover" >Hover to toggle popover</button>

<div id="custom-html" style="display: none;">
    <strong>Helloooo!!</strong>
</div>

The js part:

$(function () {
        let popover = '[data-toggle="popover"]';

        let popoverId = function(element) {
            return $(element).popover().data('bs.popover').tip.id;
        }

        $(popover).popover({
            trigger: 'manual',
            html: true,
            animation: false
        })
        .on('show.bs.popover', function() {
            // hide all other popovers  
            $(popover).popover("hide");
        })
        .on("mouseenter", function() {
            // add custom html from element
            let target = $(this).data('target');
            $(this).popover().data('bs.popover').config.content = $(target).html();

            // show the popover
            $(this).popover("show");
            
            $('#' + popoverId(this)).on("mouseleave", () => {
               $(this).popover("hide");
            });

        }).on("mouseleave", function() {
            setTimeout(() => {
                if (!$("#" + popoverId(this) + ":hover").length) {
                    $(this).popover("hide");
                }
            }, 100);
        });
    })

score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Nov 12 '13 at 10:13

Same thing for tooltips:

For me following solution works because it does not add event listeners on every 'mouseenter' and it is possible to hover back on the tooltip element which keeps the tooltip alive.

$ ->

  $('.element').tooltip({
    html: true,
    trigger: 'manual'
  }).
  on 'mouseenter', ->
    clearTimeout window.tooltipTimeout
    $(this).tooltip('show') unless $('.tooltip:visible').length > 0
  .
  on 'mouseleave', ->
    _this = this
    window.tooltipTimeout = setTimeout ->
      $(_this).tooltip('hide')
    , 100

$(document).on 'mouseenter', '.tooltip', ->
  clearTimeout window.tooltipTimeout

$(document).on 'mouseleave', '.tooltip', ->
  trigger = $($(this).siblings('.element')[0])
  window.tooltipTimeout = setTimeout ->
    trigger.tooltip('hide')
  , 100

score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Apr 09 '14 at 07:43

This solution worked out fine for me: (now its bulletproof) ;-)

function enableThumbPopover() {
    var counter;

    $('.thumbcontainer').popover({
        trigger: 'manual',
        animation: false,
        html: true,
        title: function () {
            return $(this).parent().find('.thumbPopover > .title').html();
        },
        content: function () {
            return $(this).parent().find('.thumbPopover > .body').html();
        },
        container: 'body',
        placement: 'auto'
    }).on("mouseenter",function () {
        var _this = this; // thumbcontainer

        console.log('thumbcontainer mouseenter')
        // clear the counter
        clearTimeout(counter);
        // Close all other Popovers
        $('.thumbcontainer').not(_this).popover('hide');

        // start new timeout to show popover
        counter = setTimeout(function(){
            if($(_this).is(':hover'))
            {
                $(_this).popover("show");
            }
            $(".popover").on("mouseleave", function () {
                $('.thumbcontainer').popover('hide');
            });
        }, 400);

    }).on("mouseleave", function () {
        var _this = this;

        setTimeout(function () {
            if (!$(".popover:hover").length) {
                if(!$(this).is(':hover'))
                {
                    $(_this).popover('hide');
                }
            }
        }, 200);
    });
}

Dinesh Sarak · Answer 15 · 2016-09-09T21:15:12.990

        $(function() {
            $("[data-toggle = 'popover']").popover({
                placement: 'left',
                html: true,
                trigger: "  focus",
            }).on("mouseenter", function() {
                var _this = this;
                $(this).popover("show");
                $(this).siblings(".popover").on("mouseleave", function() {
                    $(_this).popover('hide');
                });
            }).on("mouseleave", function() {
                var _this = this;
                setTimeout(function() {
                    if (!$(".popover:hover").length) {
                        $(_this).popover("hide")
                    }
                }, 100);
            });
        });

score 0 · Answer 16 · answered Mar 02 '18 at 01:58

I found the mouseleave will not fire when weird things happen, like the window focus changes suddenly, then the user comes back to the browser. In cases like that, mouseleave will never fire until the cursor goes over and leaves the element again.

This solution I came up with relies on mouseenter on the window object, so it disappears when the mouse is moved anywhere else on the page.

This was designed to work with having multiple elements on the page that will trigger it (like in a table).

var allMenus = $(".menus");
allMenus.popover({
    html: true,
    trigger: "manual",
    placement: "bottom",
    content: $("#menuContent")[0].outerHTML
}).on("mouseenter", (e) => {
    allMenus.not(e.target).popover("hide");
    $(e.target).popover("show");
    e.stopPropagation();
}).on("shown.bs.popover", () => {
    $(window).on("mouseenter.hidepopover", (e) => {
        if ($(e.target).parents(".popover").length === 0) {
            allMenus.popover("hide");
            $(window).off("mouseenter.hidepopover");
        }
    });
});

Grey Li · Answer 17 · 2018-04-15T07:27:04.970

It will be more flexible with hover():

$(".my-popover").hover(
    function() {  // mouse in event
        $this = $(this);
        $this.popover({
            html: true,
            content: "Your content",
            trigger: "manual",
            animation: false
            });
        $this.popover("show");
        $(".popover").on("mouseleave", function() {
            $this.popover("hide");
        });
    },
    function() {  // mouse out event
        setTimeout(function() {
            if (!$(".popover:hover").length) {
                $this.popover("hide");
            }
        }, 100);
    } 
)

score 0 · Answer 18 · answered Aug 23 '18 at 14:32

0

Simple :)

$('[data-toggle="popover"]').popover( { "container":"body", "trigger":"focus", "html":true });
$('[data-toggle="popover"]').mouseenter(function(){
    $(this).trigger('focus');
});

answered Aug 23 '18 at 14:32

edmc73

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score 0 · Answer 19 · answered Oct 29 '20 at 14:37

I found that the accepted answer and the similar ones to it had some flaws. Mainly that it's repeatedly adding that mouseleave listener to the element.

I've combined their solution with some custom code to achieve the functionality in question without memory leaks or listener bloat.

    var getPopoverTimeout = function ($el) {
        return $el.data('timeout');
    }
    $element.popover({
        trigger: "manual",
        html: true,
        content: ...,
        title: ...,
        container: $element
     }).on("mouseenter", function () {
        var $this = $(this);
        if (!$this.find('.popover').length) {
            $this.popover("show");
        } else if (getPopoverTimeout($element)) {
            clearTimeout(getPopoverTimeout($element));
        }
    }).on("mouseleave", function () {
        var $this = $(this);
        $element.data('timeout', setTimeout(function () {
            if (!$(".popover:hover").length) {
                $this.popover("hide")
            }
        }, 250));
    });

Which provides a nice 'hover-intent' like solution so that it doesn't flash in and out.

score 0 · Answer 20 · answered Mar 19 '22 at 04:42

This is a solution for Bootstrap 5

let el = document.getElementById('poptest');
let popover = new bootstrap.Popover(el, { delay: { show: 0, hide: 500 }});

el.addEventListener('shown.bs.popover', function(ev) {
  let oldHandler = popover.hide, pel = $(popover.tip);
  pel.on('mouseenter', () => popover.hide = () => 1);
  pel.on('mouseleave', () => {
    popover.hide = oldHandler;
    popover.hide();
  });
});

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@popperjs/core@2.10.2/dist/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap/5.1.3/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap/5.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary m-5" data-bs-trigger="hover" data-bs-container="body" data-bs-toggle="popover" data-bs-placement="bottom" data-bs-content="Hover here and it won't close!" id="poptest">
  Popover on top
</button>

The concept is we override the hide function on mouseenter so it doesn't automatically close and then restore it on mouseleave.

Giuliano · Answer 21 · 2019-05-02T18:04:49.427

This is my code for show dynamics tooltips with delay and loaded by ajax.

$(window).on('load', function () {
    generatePopovers();
    
    $.fn.dataTable.tables({ visible: true, api: true }).on('draw.dt', function () {
        generatePopovers();
    });
});

$(document).ajaxStop(function () {
    generatePopovers();
});

function generatePopovers() {
var popover = $('a[href*="../Something.aspx"]'); //locate the elements to popover

popover.each(function (index) {
    var poplink = $(this);
    if (poplink.attr("data-toggle") == null) {
        console.log("RENDER POPOVER: " + poplink.attr('href'));
        poplink.attr("data-toggle", "popover");
        poplink.attr("data-html", "true");
        poplink.attr("data-placement", "top");
        poplink.attr("data-content", "Loading...");
        poplink.popover({
            animation: false,
            html: true,
            trigger: 'manual',
            container: 'body',
            placement: 'top'
        }).on("mouseenter", function () {
            var thispoplink = poplink;
            setTimeout(function () {
                if (thispoplink.is(":hover")) {
                    thispoplink.popover("show");
                    loadDynamicData(thispoplink); //load data by ajax if you want
                    $('body .popover').on("mouseleave", function () {
                        thispoplink.popover('hide');
                    });
                }
            }, 1000);
        }).on("mouseleave", function () {
            var thispoplink = poplink;
            setTimeout(function () {
                if (!$("body").find(".popover:hover").length) {
                    thispoplink.popover("hide");
                }
            }, 100);
        });
    }
});

function loadDynamicData(popover) {
    var params = new Object();
    params.somedata = popover.attr("href").split("somedata=")[1]; //obtain a parameter to send
    params = JSON.stringify(params);
    //check if the content is not seted
    if (popover.attr("data-content") == "Loading...") {
        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: "../Default.aspx/ObtainData",
            data: params,
            contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
            dataType: 'json',
            success: function (data) {
                console.log(JSON.parse(data.d));
                var dato = JSON.parse(data.d);
                if (dato != null) {
                    popover.attr("data-content",dato.something); // here you can set the data returned
                    if (popover.is(":hover")) {
                        popover.popover("show"); //use this for reload the view
                    }
                }
            },

            failure: function (data) {
                itShowError("- Error AJAX.<br>");
            }
        });
    }
}

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