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Why my `onclick` doesn't work despite others things works?

So I'm using some parts of gentelella and there is a file custom.js. I have some problems with this file because some parts works and other don't.
The problem is with this method:
$(document).ready(function() {
console.log("custom.js inside document ready");
$('.collapse-link').on('click', function() {
console.log("clicked on a collapse-link");
var $BOX_PANEL = $(this).closest('.x_panel'),
$ICON = $(this).find('i'),
$BOX_CONTENT = $BOX_PANEL.find('.x_content');
// fix for some div with hardcoded fix class
if ($BOX_PANEL.attr('style')) {
$BOX_CONTENT.slideToggle(200, function(){
$BOX_PANEL.removeAttr('style');
});
} else {
$BOX_CONTENT.slideToggle(200);
$BOX_PANEL.css('height', 'auto');
}
$ICON.toggleClass('fa-chevron-up fa-chevron-down');
});
$('.close-link').click(function () {
console.log("close-link clicked")
var $BOX_PANEL = $(this).closest('.x_panel');
$BOX_PANEL.remove();
});
});
It write "custom.js inside document ready" but when I click nothing happened.
And if I look into the HTML I have the same classes as in the JS:

it might be that on document ready these specific elements are not found.
In general a best practice is to delegate the events to the document, like this:
$(document).ready(function() {
console.log("custom.js inside document ready");
$(document).on('click', '.collapse-link' /* <--- notice this */, function() {
console.log("clicked on a collapse-link");
var $BOX_PANEL = $(this).closest('.x_panel'),
$ICON = $(this).find('i'),
$BOX_CONTENT = $BOX_PANEL.find('.x_content');
// fix for some div with hardcoded fix class
if ($BOX_PANEL.attr('style')) {
$BOX_CONTENT.slideToggle(200, function(){
$BOX_PANEL.removeAttr('style');
});
} else {
$BOX_CONTENT.slideToggle(200);
$BOX_PANEL.css('height', 'auto');
}
$ICON.toggleClass('fa-chevron-up fa-chevron-down');
});
$(document).on('click', '.close-link' /* <--- notice this */, function () {
console.log("close-link clicked")
var $BOX_PANEL = $(this).closest('.x_panel');
$BOX_PANEL.remove();
});
});

You have written the click event on the a tag. In general functional specific tags like submit button, a tag will do their default functionality on click. So as it is anchor it will check for href which is not there so the it is not redirecting to anywhere. We can supress the default behaviour of these kinds using e.preventDefault(). Here e is the event. So change your function to
$('.collapse-link').on('click', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
console.log("clicked on a collapse-link");
var $BOX_PANEL = $(this).closest('.x_panel'),
$ICON = $(this).find('i'),
$BOX_CONTENT = $BOX_PANEL.find('.x_content');
// fix for some div with hardcoded fix class
if ($BOX_PANEL.attr('style')) {
$BOX_CONTENT.slideToggle(200, function(){
$BOX_PANEL.removeAttr('style');
});
} else {
$BOX_CONTENT.slideToggle(200);
$BOX_PANEL.css('height', 'auto');
}
$ICON.toggleClass('fa-chevron-up fa-chevron-down');
});
And
$('.close-link').on('click', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
console.log("close-link clicked")
var $BOX_PANEL = $(this).closest('.x_panel');
$BOX_PANEL.remove();
});

Change image onclick

I want to display a different image when clicking on my image. A demo is here. When clicking on the image the image should change to an arrow pointing up instead of pointing down. How do I do that?
Here is my code:
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<td>
<div id="flip"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/YCf5zYt.png"></div>
<div id="panel" style="display: none;"><p><i><strong>CONTENT</strong></i></p>
</div>
</td>
JS
var toggled = false;
$("img").click(function () {
if (!toggled) {
$(this).css("", "url(http://i.imgur.com/YCf5zYt.png)");
toggled = true;
} else {
$(this).css("", "url(http://i.imgur.com/V4fKMWS.png)");
toggled = false;
}
$("p").slideToggle();
})
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#flip").click(function () {
$("#panel").slideToggle("slow");
});
});

Here's another solution with toggleClass() and attr() function :
See this fiddle
$(document).ready(function () {
$("img").click(function () {
$(this).toggleClass('active');
if($(this).hasClass('active')){
$(this).attr("src","http://i.imgur.com/V4fKMWS.png");
} else {
$(this).attr("src","http://i.imgur.com/YCf5zYt.png");
}
$("#panel").slideToggle();
});
});

There are a couple of issues with the code:
First of all, you have to attach all of the event handlers from within the document ready callback. As it stands right now, it is possible that event handler is not attached because image tag may be not yet loaded when you try to attach the handler.
You also have to modify the src attribute of the image, not the css's url style:
$(this).attr("src", "http://i.imgur.com/YCf5zYt.png");

you can change the attribue src.
if (!toggled) {
$(this).attr("src", "http://i.imgur.com/YCf5zYt.png");
toggled = true;
} else {
$(this).attr("src", "http://i.imgur.com/V4fKMWS.png");
toggled = false;
}
Refer link: https://jsfiddle.net/sj7o9x58/2/

there a mistakes in your code try this
var toggled = false;
$("img").click(function () {
if (!toggled) {
$(this).attr("src", "http://i.imgur.com/YCf5zYt.png");
toggled = true;
} else {
$(this).attr("src", "http://i.imgur.com/V4fKMWS.png");
toggled = false;
}
$("p").slideToggle();
});

Try to write all your code in $(document).ready(); And you have a big mistake.
You should use .slideToggle() for $("#panel"). And this is easier way to do it(without any variables):
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#flip").click(function(){
if($("#panel").css("display") === "none"){
$("#panel").slideToggle().css("display", "block");
$("img").attr("src", "http://i.imgur.com/V4fKMWS.png");
} else if($("#panel").css("display") === "block"){
$("#panel").slideToggle();
$("img").attr("src", "http://i.imgur.com/YCf5zYt.png");
}
});
});
And demo is here

$(document).ready(function () {
var toggled = true;
$("img").on('click',function () {
if (!toggled) {
$(this).attr("src", "http://i.imgur.com/YCf5zYt.png");
toggled = true;
} else {
$(this).attr("src", "http://i.imgur.com/V4fKMWS.png");
toggled = false;
}
$("#panel").slideToggle("slow");
});
});
The updated fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/sj7o9x58/3/
I don't know if that's the image behavior you want, if it's the oposite just change te toggled initialization to false and the image by default on the src (html).

hiding div if clicked anywhere in DOM

I have a a textbox in my app, onkeyup I show a div that gets result from database. so whenever user enters something I show the div, the problem is that I want to hide the div if users clicks somewhere else in the DOM.
just like when you select a drop down if you click somewhere else the drop down is closed.
Is there any builtin mechanism for this in jquery or javascript?

$( "body" ).click(function() {
$( "#yourDivIdHere" ).hide();
});
https://api.jquery.com/hide/

Use event delegation and check the originator of a click event. Something like:
$('body').on('click',function (e) {
var origin = e.target || e.srcElement;
if (/* [origin.id != your dropdowndiv.id] */) {
/* hide your dropdowndiv */
}
});

Try this.
Demo: http://jsbin.com/xatanicu/4/edit
$(document).ready(function() {
$('input').focusout(function() {
$(document).click(function(e) {
var targetId = $(e.target)[0].id;
if((targetId !== 'hide-div')) {
$('div').hide();
}
});
});
});

You can hide the result div when the textbox loses focus:
//vanilla JavaScript
textBoxId.onblur = divId.style.display = 'none';
//jQuery
$("#textBoxId").blur(function() {
$("#divId").hide();
});
UPDATE:
It should not hide the result div if the user clicked on the result div itself. (The answer is based on Action on blur except when specific element clicked with jQuery)
var keepFocus = false;
function hideList(){
if(!keepFocus){
$('#divId').hide();
}
}
$('#textBoxId').blur(function() {
keepFocus = false;
window.setTimeout(hideList, 100);
}).focus(function(){
keepFocus = true;
});
$('#divId').blur(function() {
keepFocus = false;
window.setTimeout(hideList, 100);
}).click(function(){
keepFocus = true;
});
See this solution in action here:
http://jsfiddle.net/XC2D7/

How to stop animation after one body click with jQuery

So, i have some animation actions, this is for my login panel box:
$('.top_menu_login_button').live('click', function(){
$('#login_box').animate({"margin-top": "+=320px"}, "slow");
});
$('.login_pin').live('click', function(){
$('#login_box').animate({"margin-top": "-=320px"}, "slow");
});
now i need to add some hiding action after click on body so i do this:
var mouse_is_inside = false;
$('#login_box').hover(function () {
mouse_is_inside = true;
}, function () {
mouse_is_inside = false;
});
for stop hiding this element on body click, and this for body click outside by login-box
$("body").mouseup(function () {
if (!mouse_is_inside) {
var login_box = $('#login_box');
if (login_box.css('margin-top','0')){
login_box.stop().animate({"margin-top": "-=320px"}, "slow");
}
}
});
Everything is fine but this panel animates after each body click, how to stop this and execute only one time? Depend on this panel is visible or not?

You'd normally do this sort of thing by checking if the click occured inside the element or not, not by using mousemove events to set globals :
$(document).on('click', function(e) {
if ( !$(e.target).closest('#login_box').length ) { //not inside
var login_box = $('#login_box');
if ( parseInt(login_box.css('margin-top'),10) === 0){
login_box.stop(true, true).animate({"margin-top": "-=320px"}, "slow");
}
}
});
And live() is deprecated, you should be using on().

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.