How can I hold Twitter Bootstrap Popover open until my mouse moves into it?

Question

I have a link that uses the Twitter Bootstrap Popover version 1.3.0 to show some information. This information includes a link, but every-time I move my mouse from the link

Answer 1

At the end of the conversation linked by @stevendaniels is a link to a Twitter Bootstrap extension called BootstrapX - clickover by Lee Carmichael. This changes the popover from an overlarge tooltip into an interactive control, which can be closed by clicking elsewhere on the form, a close button, or after a timeout. Its easy to use, and worked very well for the project I needed it in. Some examples of its usage can be found here.

Answer 2

Just to add to Marchello's example, if you want the popover to disappear if the user moves their mouse away from the popover and source link, try this out.

var timeoutObj;
$('.nav_item a').popover({
    offset: 10,
    trigger: 'manual',
    html: true,
    placement: 'right',
    template: '<div class="popover" onmouseover="clearTimeout(timeoutObj);$(this).mouseleave(function() {$(this).hide();});"><div class="arrow"></div><div class="popover-inner"><h3 class="popover-title"></h3><div class="popover-content"><p></p></div></div></div>'
}).mouseenter(function(e) {
    $(this).popover('show');
}).mouseleave(function(e) {
    var ref = $(this);
    timeoutObj = setTimeout(function(){
        ref.popover('hide');
    }, 50);
});

Answer 3

I tried the solutions from @Wotjek Kruszewski and @danielgatis, but neither worked for me. Caveat: I'm using Bootstrap v2.1.0, not v3. This solution is in coffeescript (why are people still using plain javascript? =)).

(($) ->
  originalLeave = $.fn.popover.Constructor::leave
  $.fn.popover.Constructor::leave = (e) ->
    self = $(e.currentTarget)[@type](@_options).data(@type)
    originalLeave.call @, e

    if e.currentTarget
      container = $(".popover")
      container.one "mouseenter", ->
        clearTimeout self.timeout

        container.one "mouseleave", ->
          originalLeave.call self, e
) jQuery

Answer 4

After seeing all Answer I made this I think it will be helpful .You Can manage Everything which you need. Many answer doesn't make show delay I use this. Its work very nice in my project
/****** /*************************************************************/

<div class='thumbnail' data-original-title=''  style='width:50%'>    
 <div id='item_details' class='popper-content hide'>
    <div>
        <div style='height:10px'> </div>
        <div class='title'>Bad blood </div>
        <div class='catagory'>Music </div>
    </div>

  </div>
  HELLO POPOVER
</div>"

/****************SCRIPT CODE ****************** PLEASE USE FROM HEAR ******/

$(".thumbnail").popover({
trigger: "manual" ,
html: true,
animation:true,
container: 'body',
placement: 'auto right',
content: function () {
    return $(this).children('.popper-content').html();
}}) .on("mouseenter", function () {
var _this = this;

$('.thumbnail').each(function () {
    $(this).popover('hide');
});
setTimeout(function(){
    if ($(_this).is(':hover')) {
        $(_this).popover("show");
    }
},1000);
$(".popover").on("mouseleave", function () {
    $('.thumbnail').each(function () {
        $(this).popover('hide');
    });
    $(_this).popover('hide');
 }); }).on("mouseleave", function () {
    var _this = this;
    setTimeout(function () {
        if (!$(".popover:hover").length) {
            $(_this).popover("hide");
        }
    }, 100); });

Answer 5

This issue on the bootstrap github repo deals with this problem. fat pointed out the experimental "in top/bottom/left/right" placement. It works, pretty well, but you have to make sure the popover trigger is not positioned statically with css. Otherwise the popover won't appear where you want it to.

HTML:

<span class="myClass" data-content="lorem ipsum content" data-original-title="pop-title">Hover me to show a popover.</span>

CSS:

/*CSS */
.myClass{ position: relative;}

JS:

$(function(){
  $('.myClass').popover({placement: 'in top'});
});  

Answer 6

Solution worked for us for Bootstrap 3.

var timeoutObj;
$('.list-group a').popover({
    offset: 10,
    trigger: 'manual',
    html: true,
    placement: 'right',
    template: '<div class="popover" onmouseover="$(this).mouseleave(function() {$(this).hide();});"><div class="arrow"></div><div class="popover-inner"><h3 class="popover-title"></h3><div class="popover-content"><p></p></div></div></div>'
}).mouseenter(function(e) {
    $(this).popover('show');
}).mouseleave(function(e) {
    var _this = this;
    setTimeout(function() {
        if (!$(".popover:hover").length) {
            $(_this).popover("hide");
        }
    }, 100);
});