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

Bootstrap 3 and above

Simple, just use the container option and have it as the element that is calling the popover. This way, the popover is a child of the element that calls it. Hence, you are technically still hovering over the parent, because the child popover belongs to it.

For example:

HTML:

<div class="pop" data-content="Testing 12345">This has a popover</div>
<div class="pop" data-content="Testing 12345">This has a popover</div>
<div class="pop" data-content="Testing 12345">This has a popover</div>

jQuery:

Running an $.each() loop over every one of my elements that I want a popover binded to its parent. In this case, each element has the class of pop.

$('.pop').each(function () {
    var $elem = $(this);
    $elem.popover({
        placement: 'top',
        trigger: 'hover',
        html: true,
        container: $elem
    });
});

CSS:

This part is optional, but recommended. It moves the popover down by 7 pixels for easier access.

.pop .popover {
    margin-top:7px;
}

WORKING DEMO

Answer 2

This is a version of Wojtek Kruszewski solution. This version handle popover blink when mouse go back to trigger. http://jsfiddle.net/danielgatis/QtcpD/

(function($) {
      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) {
          var current = $(obj.currentTarget);
          var container = current.siblings(".popover");
          container.on("mouseenter", function() {
            clearTimeout(self.timeout);
          });
          container.on("mouseleave", function() {
            originalLeave.call(self, self);
          });
        }
      };

      var originalEnter = $.fn.popover.Constructor.prototype.enter;
      $.fn.popover.Constructor.prototype.enter = function(obj) {
        var self = (obj instanceof this.constructor ? obj : $(obj.currentTarget)[this.type](this.getDelegateOptions()).data("bs." + this.type));
        clearTimeout(self.timeout);
        if (!$(obj.currentTarget).siblings(".popover:visible").length) {
          originalEnter.call(this, obj);
        }
      };
    })(jQuery);

Answer 3

Now I just switch to webuiPopover, it just works.

Answer 4

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 save (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);
      });
    })
  }
};