Popovers bootstrap.popover

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.

Using bootstrap.popover

Enable popovers via javascript:

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

Options

Name type default description
animation boolean true apply a css fade transition to the tooltip
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 'hover' how tooltip is triggered - 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 }

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.

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

.popover('hide')

Hides an elements popover.

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

.popover('toggle')

Toggles an elements popover.

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