Popovers

Popovers

Examples

Add small overlays of content, like those on the iPad, to any element for housing secondary information. Hover over the button to trigger the popover. Requires Tooltip to be included.

Static popover

Four options are available: top, right, bottom, and left aligned.

Popover top

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Popover right

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Popover bottom

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Popover left

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No markup shown as popovers are generated from JavaScript and content within a data attribute.

Four directions

Usage

Enable popovers via JavaScript:

  1. $('#example').popover(options)

Options

Options can be passed via data attributes or JavaScript. For data attributes, append the option name to data-, as in data-animation="".

Name type default description
animation boolean true apply a css fade transition to the tooltip
html boolean false Insert html into the popover. If false, jquery's text method will be used to insert content into the dom. Use text if you're worried about XSS attacks.
placement string | function 'right' how to position the popover - top | bottom | left | right
selector string false if a selector is provided, tooltip objects will be delegated to the specified targets
trigger string 'click' how popover is triggered - click | hover | focus | manual
title string | function '' default title value if `title` attribute isn't present
content string | function '' default content value if `data-content` attribute isn't present
delay number | object 0

delay showing and hiding the popover (ms) - does not apply to manual trigger type

If a number is supplied, delay is applied to both hide/show

Object structure is: delay: { show: 500, hide: 100 }
container string | false false

Appends the popover to a specific element container: 'body'
Heads up!
Options for individual popovers can alternatively be specified through the use of data attributes.

Markup

For performance reasons, the Tooltip and Popover data-apis are opt in. If you would like to use them just specify a selector option.

Methods

$().popover(options)

Initializes popovers for an element collection.

.popover('show')

Reveals an elements popover.

  1. $('#element').popover('show')

.popover('hide')

Hides an elements popover.

  1. $('#element').popover('hide')

.popover('toggle')

Toggles an elements popover.

  1. $('#element').popover('toggle')

.popover('destroy')

Hides and destroys an element's popover.

  1. $('#element').popover('destroy')