How can I close a Twitter Bootstrap popover with a click from anywhere (else) on the page?

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?

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

jQuery(function() {
    var isVisible = false;
    
    var hideAllPopovers = function() {
       $('.popup-marker').each(function() {
            $(this).popover('hide');
        });  
    };
    
    $('.popup-marker').popover({
        html: true,
        trigger: 'manual'
    }).on('click', function(e) {
        // if any other popovers are visible, hide them
        if(isVisible) {
            hideAllPopovers();
        }

        $(this).popover('show');

        // handle clicking on the popover itself
        $('.popover').off('click').on('click', function(e) {
            e.stopPropagation(); // prevent event for bubbling up => will not get caught with document.onclick
        });
        
        isVisible = true;
        e.stopPropagation();
    });

    
    $(document).on('click', function(e) {
        hideAllPopovers();
        isVisible = false;
    });
});

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 :-)

This is even easier :

$('html').click(function(e) {
    $('.popup-marker').popover('hide');
});

$('.popup-marker').popover({
    html: true,
    trigger: 'manual'
}).click(function(e) {
    $(this).popover('toggle');
    e.stopPropagation();
});

I had a similar need, and found this great little extension of the Twitter Bootstrap Popover by Lee Carmichael, called BootstrapX - clickover. He also has some usage examples here. Basically it will change the popover into an interactive component which will close when you click elsewhere on the page, or on a close button within the popover. This will also allow multiple popovers open at once and a bunch of other nice features.

Plugin can be found here.

Usage example

<button rel="clickover" data-content="Show something here. 
    <button data-dismiss='clickover'
    >Close Clickover</button>"
>Show clickover</button>

javascript:

// load click overs using 'rel' attribute
$('[rel="clickover"]').clickover();

The accepted solution gave me some issues (clicking on the '.popup-marker' element of the opened popover made the popovers not work afterwards). I came up with this other solution that works perfectly for me and it's quite simple (I'm using Bootstrap 2.3.1):

$('.popup-marker').popover({
    html: true,
    trigger: 'manual'
}).click(function(e) {
    $('.popup-marker').not(this).popover('hide');
    $(this).popover('toggle');
});
$(document).click(function(e) {
    if (!$(e.target).is('.popup-marker, .popover-title, .popover-content')) {
        $('.popup-marker').popover('hide');
    }
});

UPDATE: This code works with Bootstrap 3 as well!

read "Dismiss on next click" here http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#popovers

You can use the focus trigger to dismiss popovers on the next click, but you have to use use the <a> tag, not the <button> tag, and you also must include a tabindex attribute...

Example:

<a href="#" tabindex="0" class="btn btn-lg btn-danger"
  data-toggle="popover" data-trigger="focus" title="Dismissible popover"
  data-content="And here's some amazing content. It's very engaging. Right?">
  Dismissible popover
</a>

All of the existing answers are fairly weak, as they rely on capturing all document events then finding active popovers, or modifying the call to .popover().

A much better approach is to listen for show.bs.popover events on the document's body then react accordingly. Below is code which will close popovers when the document is clicked or esc is pressed, only binding event listeners when popovers are shown:

function closePopoversOnDocumentEvents() {
  var visiblePopovers = [];

  var $body = $("body");

  function hideVisiblePopovers() {
    $.each(visiblePopovers, function() {
      $(this).popover("hide");
    });
  }

  function onBodyClick(event) {
    if (event.isDefaultPrevented())
      return;
    
    var $target = $(event.target);
    if ($target.data("bs.popover"))
      return;

    if ($target.parents(".popover").length)
      return;

    hideVisiblePopovers();
  }

  function onBodyKeyup(event) {
    if (event.isDefaultPrevented())
      return;

    if (event.keyCode != 27) // esc
      return;
    
    hideVisiblePopovers();
    event.preventDefault();
  }

  function onPopoverShow(event) {
    if (!visiblePopovers.length) {
      $body.on("click", onBodyClick);
      $body.on("keyup", onBodyKeyup);
    }
    visiblePopovers.push(event.target);
  }

  function onPopoverHide(event) {
    var target = event.target;
    var index = visiblePopovers.indexOf(target);
    if (index > -1) {
      visiblePopovers.splice(index, 1);
    }
    if (visiblePopovers.length == 0) {
      $body.off("click", onBodyClick);
      $body.off("keyup", onBodyKeyup);
    }
  }

  $body.on("show.bs.popover", onPopoverShow);
  $body.on("hide.bs.popover", onPopoverHide);
}

https://github.com/lecar-red/bootstrapx-clickover

It's an extension of twitter bootstrap popover and will solve the problem very simply.

For some reason none of the other solutions here worked for me. However, after a lot of troubleshooting, I finally arrived at this method which works perfectly (for me at least).

$('html').click(function(e) {
  if( !$(e.target).parents().hasClass('popover') ) {
    $('#popover_parent').popover('destroy');
  }
});

In my case I was adding a popover to a table and absolutely positioning it above/below the td that was clicked. The table selection was handled by jQuery-UI Selectable so I'm not sure if that was interfering. However whenever I clicked inside the popover my click handler which targeted $('.popover') never worked and the event handling was always delegated to the $(html) click handler. I'm fairly new to JS so perhaps I'm just missing something?

Anyways I hope this helps someone!

I give all my popovers anchors the class activate_popover. I activate them all at once onload

$('body').popover({selector: '.activate-popover', html : true, container: 'body'})

to get the click away functionality working I use (in coffee script):

$(document).on('click', (e) ->
  clickedOnActivate = ($(e.target).parents().hasClass("activate-popover") || $(e.target).hasClass("activate-popover"))
  clickedAway = !($(e.target).parents().hasClass("popover") || $(e.target).hasClass("popover"))
if clickedAway && !clickedOnActivate
  $(".popover.in").prev().popover('hide')
if clickedOnActivate 
  $(".popover.in").prev().each () ->
    if !$(this).is($(e.target).closest('.activate-popover'))
      $(this).popover('hide')
)

Which works perfectly fine with bootstrap 2.3.1

Even though there are a lot of solutions here, i'd like to propose mine as well, i don't know if there is some solution up there that solves it all, but i tried 3 of them and they had issues, like clicking on the popover it self makes it hide, others that if i had another popover buttons clicked both/multiple popovers would still appear (like in the selected solution), How ever, This one fixed it all

var curr_popover_btn = null;
// Hide popovers function
function hide_popovers(e)
{
	var container = $(".popover.in");
    if (!container.is(e.target) // if the target of the click isn't the container...
        && container.has(e.target).length === 0) // ... nor a descendant of the container
    {
		if( curr_popover_btn != null )
		{
			$(curr_popover_btn).popover('hide');
			curr_popover_btn = null;
		}
		container.hide();
    }
}
// Hide popovers when out of focus
$('html').click(function(e) {
	hide_popovers(e);
});
$('.popover-marker').popover({
    trigger: 'manual'
}).click(function(e) {
	hide_popovers(e);
	var $popover_btns = $('.popover-marker');
	curr_popover_btn = this;
	var $other_popover_btns = jQuery.grep($($popover_btns), function(popover_btn){
				return ( popover_btn !== curr_popover_btn );
			});
	$($other_popover_btns).popover('hide');
    $(this).popover('toggle');
    e.stopPropagation();
});

I would set the focus to the newly created pop-over and remove it on blur. That way it's not needed to check which element of the DOM has been clicked and the pop-over can be clicked, and selected too: it will not lose its focus and will not disappear.

The code:

	$('.popup-marker').popover({
       html: true,
       trigger: 'manual'
    }).click(function(e) {
       $(this).popover('toggle');
       // set the focus on the popover itself 
       jQuery(".popover").attr("tabindex",-1).focus();
       e.preventDefault();
    });

    // live event, will delete the popover by clicking any part of the page
	$('body').on('blur','.popover',function(){
	   $('.popup-marker').popover('hide');
    });

Here is the solution which worked very fine for me, if it can help :

/**
* Add the equals method to the jquery objects
*/
$.fn.equals = function(compareTo) {
  if (!compareTo || this.length !== compareTo.length) {
    return false;
  }
  for (var i = 0; i < this.length; ++i) {
    if (this[i] !== compareTo[i]) {
      return false;
    }
  }
  return true;
};

/**
 * Activate popover message for all concerned fields
 */
var popoverOpened = null;
$(function() { 
    $('span.btn').popover();
    $('span.btn').unbind("click");
    $('span.btn').bind("click", function(e) {
        e.stopPropagation();
        if($(this).equals(popoverOpened)) return;
        if(popoverOpened !== null) {
            popoverOpened.popover("hide");            
        }
        $(this).popover('show');
        popoverOpened = $(this);
        e.preventDefault();
    });
    
    $(document).click(function(e) {
        if(popoverOpened !== null) {
            popoverOpened.popover("hide");   
            popoverOpened = null;
        }        
    });
});

Here's my solution, for what it's worth:

// Listen for clicks or touches on the page
$("html").on("click.popover.data-api touchend.popover.data-api", function(e) {

  // Loop through each popover on the page
  $("[data-toggle=popover]").each(function() {

    // Hide this popover if it's visible and if the user clicked outside of it
    if ($(this).next('div.popover:visible').length && $(".popover").has(e.target).length === 0) {
      $(this).popover("hide");
    }

  });
});

I had some problem to get it working on bootstrap 2.3.2. But i sloved it this way:

$(function () {
  $(document).mouseup(function (e) {
    	if(($('.popover').length > 0) && !$(e.target).hasClass('popInfo')) {
    		$('.popover').each(function(){
    			$(this).prev('.popInfo').popover('hide');
    		});
    	}
    });

    $('.popInfo').popover({
	 	trigger: 'click',
	 	html: true
    });
});

tweaked @David Wolever solution slightly:

function closePopoversOnDocumentEvents() {
  var visiblePopovers = [];

  var $body = $("body");

  function hideVisiblePopovers() {
    /* this was giving problems and had a bit of overhead
      $.each(visiblePopovers, function() {
        $(this).popover("hide");
      });
    */
    while (visiblePopovers.length !== 0) {
       $(visiblePopovers.pop()).popover("hide");
    }
  }

  function onBodyClick(event) {
    if (event.isDefaultPrevented())
      return;
    
    var $target = $(event.target);
    if ($target.data("bs.popover"))
      return;

    if ($target.parents(".popover").length)
      return;

    hideVisiblePopovers();
  }

  function onBodyKeyup(event) {
    if (event.isDefaultPrevented())
      return;

    if (event.keyCode != 27) // esc
      return;
    
    hideVisiblePopovers();
    event.preventDefault();
  }

  function onPopoverShow(event) {
    if (!visiblePopovers.length) {
      $body.on("click", onBodyClick);
      $body.on("keyup", onBodyKeyup);
    }
    visiblePopovers.push(event.target);
  }

  function onPopoverHide(event) {
    var target = event.target;
    var index = visiblePopovers.indexOf(target);
    if (index > -1) {
      visiblePopovers.splice(index, 1);
    }
    if (visiblePopovers.length == 0) {
      $body.off("click", onBodyClick);
      $body.off("keyup", onBodyKeyup);
    }
  }

  $body.on("show.bs.popover", onPopoverShow);
  $body.on("hide.bs.popover", onPopoverHide);
}

This question was also asked here and my answer provides not only a way to understand jQuery DOM traversal methods but 2 options for handling the closing of popovers by clicking outside.

Open multiple popovers at once or one popover at a time.

Plus these small code snippets can handle the closing of buttons containing icons!

https://stackoverflow.com/a/14857326/1060487

This one works like a charm and I use it.

It will open the popover when you click and if you click again it will close, also if you click outside of the popover the popover will be closed.

This also works with more than 1 popover.

    function hideAllPopovers(){
    $('[data-toggle="popover"]').each(function() {
        if ($(this).data("showing") == "true"){
            $(this).data("showing", "false");
            $(this).popover('hide');                
        }
    });
}
$('[data-toggle="popover"]').each(function() {
        $(this).popover({
            html: true,
            trigger: 'manual'
        }).click(function(e) {
            if ($(this).data("showing") !=  "true"){
                hideAllPopovers();
                $(this).data("showing", "true");
                $(this).popover('show');
            }else{
                hideAllPopovers();
            }
            e.stopPropagation();
        });
});

$(document).click(function(e) {
    hideAllPopovers();
});

Another solution, it covered the problem I had with clicking descendants of the popover:

$(document).mouseup(function (e) {
    // The target is not popover or popover descendants
    if (!$(".popover").is(e.target) && 0 === $(".popover").has(e.target).length) {
        $("[data-toggle=popover]").popover('hide');
    }
});

I do it as below

$("a[rel=popover]").click(function(event){
    if(event.which == 1)
    {   
        $thisPopOver = $(this);
        $thisPopOver.popover('toggle');
        $thisPopOver.parent("li").click(function(event){
            event.stopPropagation();
            $("html").click(function(){
                $thisPopOver.popover('hide');
            });
        });
    }
});

Hope this helps!

If you're trying to use twitter bootstrap popover with pjax, this worked for me:

App.Utils.Popover = {

  enableAll: function() {
    $('.pk-popover').popover(
      {
        trigger: 'click',
        html : true,
        container: 'body',
        placement: 'right',
      }
    );
  },

  bindDocumentClickEvent: function(documentObj) {
    $(documentObj).click(function(event) {
      if( !$(event.target).hasClass('pk-popover') ) {
        $('.pk-popover').popover('hide');
      }
    });
  }

};

$(document).on('ready pjax:end', function() {
  App.Utils.Popover.enableAll();
  App.Utils.Popover.bindDocumentClickEvent(this);
});

@RayOnAir, I have same issue with previous solutions. I come close to @RayOnAir solution too. One thing that improved is close already opened popover when click on other popover marker. So my code is:

var clicked_popover_marker = null;
var popover_marker = '#pricing i';

$(popover_marker).popover({
  html: true,
  trigger: 'manual'
}).click(function (e) {
  clicked_popover_marker = this;

  $(popover_marker).not(clicked_popover_marker).popover('hide');
  $(clicked_popover_marker).popover('toggle');
});

$(document).click(function (e) {
  if (e.target != clicked_popover_marker) {
    $(popover_marker).popover('hide');
    clicked_popover_marker = null;
  }
});

I found this to be a modified solution of pbaron's suggestion above, because his solution activated the popover('hide') on all elements with class 'popup-marker'. However, when you're using popover() for html content instead of the data-content, as I'm doing below, any clicks inside that html popup actually activate the popover('hide'), which promptly closes the window. This method below iterates through each .popup-marker element and discovers first if the parent is related to the .popup-marker's id that was clicked, and if so then does not hide it. All other divs are hidden...

        $(function(){
            $('html').click(function(e) {
                // this is my departure from pbaron's code above
                // $('.popup-marker').popover('hide');
                $('.popup-marker').each(function() {
                    if ($(e.target).parents().children('.popup-marker').attr('id')!=($(this).attr('id'))) {
                        $(this).popover('hide');
                    }
                });
            });

            $('.popup-marker').popover({
                html: true,
                // this is where I'm setting the html for content from a nearby hidden div with id="html-"+clicked_div_id
                content: function() { return $('#html-'+$(this).attr('id')).html(); },
                trigger: 'manual'
            }).click(function(e) {
                $(this).popover('toggle');
                e.stopPropagation();
            });
        });

I came up with this:

My scenario included more popovers on the same page, and hiding them just made them invisible and because of that, clicking on items behind the popover was not possible. The idea is to mark the specific popover-link as 'active' and then you can simply 'toggle' the active popover. Doing so will close the popover completely.

$('.popover-link').popover({ html : true, container: 'body' })

$('.popover-link').popover().on 'shown.bs.popover', ->
  $(this).addClass('toggled')

$('.popover-link').popover().on 'hidden.bs.popover', ->
  $(this).removeClass('toggled')

$("body").on "click", (e) ->
  $openedPopoverLink = $(".popover-link.toggled")
  if $openedPopoverLink.has(e.target).length == 0
    $openedPopoverLink.popover "toggle"
    $openedPopoverLink.removeClass "toggled"

I was trying to make a simple solution for a simple issue. Above posts are good but so complicated for a simple issue. So i made a simple thing. Just added a close button. Its perfect for me.

    		$(".popover-link").click(function(){
				$(".mypopover").hide();
				$(this).parent().find(".mypopover").show();
		})
		$('.close').click(function(){
    $(this).parents('.mypopover').css('display','none');
});



          <div class="popover-content">
        <i class="fa fa-times close"></i>
    <h3 class="popover-title">Title here</h3>
your other content here
        </div>


   .popover-content {
    position:relative;
    }
    .close {
    	position:absolute;
    	color:#CCC;
    	right:5px;
    	top:5px;
    	cursor:pointer;
    }

I like this, simple yet effective..

var openPopup;

$('[data-toggle="popover"]').on('click',function(){
    if(openPopup){
        $(openPopup).popover('hide');

    }
    openPopup=this;
});

Add btn-popover class to your popover button/link that opens the popover. This code will close the popovers when clicking outside of it.

$('body').on('click', function(event) {
  if (!$(event.target).closest('.btn-popover, .popover').length) {
    $('.popover').popover('hide');
  }
});

An even easier solution, just iterate through all popovers and hide if not this.

$(document).on('click', '.popup-marker', function() {
    $(this).popover('toggle')
})

$(document).bind('click touchstart', function(e) {
    var target = $(e.target)[0];
    $('.popup-marker').each(function () {
        // hide any open popovers except for the one we've clicked
        if (!$(this).is(target)) {
            $(this).popover('hide');
        }
    });
});

$('.popForm').popover();

$('.conteneurPopForm').on("click",".fermePopover",function(){
	$(".popForm").trigger("click");
});

To be clear, just trigger the popover

This should work in Bootstrap 4:

$("#my-popover-trigger").popover({
  template: '<div class="popover my-popover-content" role="tooltip"><div class="arrow"></div><div class="popover-body"></div></div>',
  trigger: "manual"
})

$(document).click(function(e) {
  if ($(e.target).closest($("#my-popover-trigger")).length > 0) {
    $("#my-popover-trigger").popover("toggle")
  } else if (!$(e.target).closest($(".my-popover-content")).length > 0) {
    $("#my-popover-trigger").popover("hide")
  }
})

Explanation:

• The first section inits the popover as per the docs: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/components/popovers/
• The first "if" in the second section checks whether the clicked element is a descendant of #my-popover-trigger. If that is true, it toggles the popover (it handles the click on the trigger).
• The second "if" in the second section checks whether the clicked element is a descendant of the popover content class which was defined in the init template. If it is not this means that the click was not inside the popover content, and the popover can be hidden.

Try data-trigger="focus" instead of "click".

This solved the problem for me.

jQuery(':not(.popup-marker)').once().click(function(){
   jQuery('.popup-marker').hide(); 
});