HTML inside Twitter Bootstrap popover

Question

I am trying to display HTML inside a bootstrap popover, but somehow it's not working. I found some answers here but it won't work for me. Please let me know if I'm doing something wrong.

<script>
  $(function(){
    $('[rel=popover]').popover({ 
      html : true, 
      content: function() {
        return $('#popover_content_wrapper').html();
      }
    });
  });
</script>

<li href="#" id="example" rel="popover" data-content="" data-original-title="A Title"> 
    popover
</li>

<div id="popover_content_wrapper" style="display: none">
    <div>This is your div content</div>
</div>

Answer 1

You cannot use <li href="#" since it belongs to <a href="#" that's why it wasn't working, change it and it's all good.

Here is working JSFiddle which shows you how to create bootstrap popover.

Relevant parts of the code is below:

HTML:

<!-- 
Note: Popover content is read from "data-content" and "title" tags.
-->
<a tabindex="0"
   class="btn btn-lg btn-primary" 
   role="button" 
   data-html="true" 
   data-toggle="popover" 
   data-trigger="focus" 
   title="<b>Example popover</b> - title" 
   data-content="<div><b>Example popover</b> - content</div>">Example popover</a>

JavaScript:

$(function(){
    // Enables popover
    $("[data-toggle=popover]").popover();
});

And by the way, you always need at least $("[data-toggle=popover]").popover(); to enable the popover. But in place of data-toggle="popover" you can also use id="my-popover" or class="my-popover". Just remember to enable them using e.g: $("#my-popover").popover(); in those cases.

Here is the link to the complete spec: Bootstrap Popover

Bonus:

If for some reason you don't like or cannot read content of a popup from the data-content and title tags. You can also use e.g. hidden divs and a bit more JavaScript. Here is an example about that.

Answer 2

you can use attribute data-html="true":

<a href="#" id="example"  rel="popover" 
    data-content="<div>This <b>is</b> your div content</div>" 
    data-html="true" data-original-title="A Title">popover</a>

Answer 3

Another way to specify the popover content in a reusable way is to create a new data attribute like data-popover-content and use it like this:

HTML:

<!-- Popover #1 -->
<a class="btn btn-primary" data-placement="top" data-popover-content="#a1" data-toggle="popover" data-trigger="focus" href="#" tabindex="0">Popover Example</a>

<!-- Content for Popover #1 -->
<div class="hidden" id="a1">
  <div class="popover-heading">
    This is the heading for #1
  </div>

  <div class="popover-body">
    This is the body for #1
  </div>
</div>

JS:

$(function(){
    $("[data-toggle=popover]").popover({
        html : true,
        content: function() {
          var content = $(this).attr("data-popover-content");
          return $(content).children(".popover-body").html();
        },
        title: function() {
          var title = $(this).attr("data-popover-content");
          return $(title).children(".popover-heading").html();
        }
    });
});

This can be useful when you have a lot of html to place into your popovers.

Here is an example fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/z824fn6b/

Answer 4

You need to create a popover instance that has the html option enabled (place this in your javascript file after the popover JS code):

$('.popover-with-html').popover({ html : true });

Answer 5

I used a pop over inside a list, Im giving an example via HTML

<a type="button" data-container="body" data-toggle="popover" data-html="true" data-placement="right" data-content='<ul class="nav"><li><a href="#">hola</li><li><a href="#">hola2</li></ul>'>

Answer 6

You only need put data-html="true" in the link popover. Is gonna work.

Answer 7

This is a slight modification on Jack's excellent answer.

The following makes sure simple popovers, without HTML content, remain unaffected.

JavaScript:

$(function(){
    $('[data-toggle=popover]:not([data-popover-content])').popover();
    $('[data-toggle=popover][data-popover-content]').popover({
        html : true,
        content: function() {
          var content = $(this).attr("data-popover-content");
          return $(content).children(".popover-body").html();
        },
        title: function() {
          var title = $(this).attr("data-popover-content");
          return $(title).children(".popover-heading").html();
        }
    });
});

Answer 8

This is an old question, but this is another way, using jQuery to reuse the popover and to keep using the original bootstrap data attributes to make it more semantic:

The link

<a href="#" rel="popover" data-trigger="focus" data-popover-content="#popover">
   Show it!
</a>

Custom content to show

<!-- Let's show the Bootstrap nav on the popover-->
<div id="list-popover" class="hide">
    <ul class="nav nav-pills nav-stacked">
        <li><a href="#">Action</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Another action</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Something else here</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Separated link</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>

Javascript

$('[rel="popover"]').popover({
    container: 'body',
    html: true,
    content: function () {
        var clone = $($(this).data('popover-content')).clone(true).removeClass('hide');
        return clone;
    }
});

Fiddle with complete example: http://jsfiddle.net/tomsarduy/262w45L5/

Answer 9

I really hate to put long HTML inside of the attribute, here is my solution, clear and simple (replace ? with whatever you want):

<a class="btn-lg popover-dismiss" data-placement="bottom" data-toggle="popover" title="Help">
    <h2>Some title</h2>
    Some text
</a>

then

var help = $('.popover-dismiss');
help.attr('data-content', help.html()).text(' ? ').popover({trigger: 'hover', html: true});

Answer 10

You can change the 'template/popover/popover.html' in file 'ui-bootstrap-tpls-0.11.0.js' Write: "bind-html-unsafe" instead of "ng-bind"

It will show all popover with html. *its unsafe html. Use only if you trust the html.

Answer 11

On the latest version of bootstrap 4.6, you might also need to use sanitize:false for adding complex html.

$('.popover-with-html').popover({ html : true, sanitize : false })

Answer 12

You can use the popover event, and control the width by attribute 'data-width'

$('[data-toggle="popover-huongdan"]').popover({ html: true });
$('[data-toggle="popover-huongdan"]').on("shown.bs.popover", function () {
    var width = $(this).attr("data-width") == undefined ? 276 : parseInt($(this).attr("data-width"));
    $("div[id^=popover]").css("max-width", width);
});

 <a class="position-absolute" href="javascript:void(0);" data-toggle="popover-huongdan" data-trigger="hover" data-width="500" title="title-popover" data-content="html-content-code">
 <i class="far fa-question-circle"></i>
 </a>