Twitter Bootstrap cant stop a dropdown from closing on click

Question

I have looked at the other questions similar and tried many of the solutions, but none have worked. Here is the issue, this is a mini login form for the top banner. I need

Answer 1

I was having the same problem with an accordion/toggle sub-menu that was nested within a dropdown-menu in Bootstrap 3. Borrowed this syntax from the source code to stop all collapse toggles from closing the dropdown:

$(document).on(
    'click.bs.dropdown.data-api', 
    '[data-toggle="collapse"]', 
    function (e) { e.stopPropagation() }
);

You can replace [data-toggle="collapse"] with whatever you want to stop closing the form, e.g. another class or another data property.

Answer 2

I figured it out. It was not inside the document ready function. (hat tip to Koala_dev) Javascript needs to be:

    <script type="text/javascript">

    $(document).ready(function() {
        $(document).on('click', '.dropdown-menu', function (e) {
            $(this).hasClass('keep_open') && e.stopPropagation(); // This replace if conditional.
        }); 
    });
    </script>