I'm currently using popovers with Twitter Bootstrap, initiated like this:
$('.popup-marker').popover({
html: true,
trigger: 'manual'
}).click(function(e) {
$(this).popover('toggle');
e.preventDefault();
});
As you can see, they're triggered manually, and clicking on .popup-marker (which is a div with a background image) toggles a popover. This works great, but I'd like to also be able to close the popover with a click anywhere else on the page (but not on the popover itself!).
I've tried a few different things, including the following, but with no results to show for it:
$('body').click(function(e) {
$('.popup-marker').popover('hide');
});
How can I close the popover with a click anywhere else on the page, but not with a click onthe popover itself?
Best Answer
Presuming that only one popover can be visible at any time, you can use a set of flags to mark when there's a popover visible, and only then hide them.
If you set the event listener on the document body, it will trigger when you click the element marked with 'popup-marker'. So you'll have to call
stopPropagation()
on the event object. And apply the same trick when clicking on the popover itself.Below is a working JavaScript code that does this. It uses jQuery >= 1.7
http://jsfiddle.net/AFffL/539/
The only caveat is that you won't be able to open 2 popovers at the same time. But I think that would be confusing for the user, anyway :-)