Twitter Bootstrap Popover/Tooltip Bug with Mobile?

Question

I am working with Twitter Bootstrap and ran into something I could not fix when testing on iPad and iPhone. On mobile (at least those devices) you need to click to engage the t

Answer 1

Bootstap-tooltip v3.3.7

Actual: tooltip on hover doesn't work with touch devices in our project

Solution: Subscribe to tooltip's show event and call mouseenter

$body = $('body');

$body.tooltip({selector: '.js-tooltip'});

// fix for touch device.
if (Modernizr.touch) { // to detect you can use https://modernizr.com
  var hideTooltip = function(e) {
    tooltipClicked = !!$(e.target).closest('.tooltip').length;
    if (tooltipClicked) { return; }

    $('.js-tooltip').tooltip('hide');
  }
  var emulateClickOnTooltip = function(e) {
    tooltipsVisible = !!$('.tooltip.in').length;
    if (tooltipsVisible) { return; }

    $(e.target).mouseenter();
  }
  var onTooltipShow = function(e) {
    tooltipClicked = !!$(e.target).closest('.tooltip').length;
    if (tooltipClicked) { return; }

    $body.on('touchend', hideTooltip); 
  }
  var onTooltipHide = function() {
    $body.off('touchend', hideTooltip);
  }

  $body
    .on('touchend', '.js-tooltip', emulateClickOnTooltip)
    .on('show.bs.tooltip', onTooltipShow)
    .on('hide.bs.tooltip', onTooltipHide);
}