Change Twitter Bootstrap Tooltip content on click

Question

I have a tooltip on an anchor element, that sends an AJAX request on click. This element has a tooltip (from Twitter Bootstrap). I want the tooltip content to change when th

Answer 1

In Bootstrap 3 it is sufficient to call elt.attr('data-original-title', "Foo") as changes in the "data-original-title" attribute already trigger changes in the tooltip display.

UPDATE: You can add .tooltip('show') to show the changes immediately, you need not to mouseout and mouseover target to see the change in the title

elt.attr('data-original-title', "Foo").tooltip('show');

Answer 2

you can update the tooltip text without actually calling show/hide:

$(myEl)
    .attr('title', newTitle)
    .tooltip('fixTitle')
    .tooltip('setContent')

Answer 3

I couldn't get any of the answers working, here's a workaround:

$('#'+$(element).attr('aria-describedby')+' .tooltip-inner').html(newTitle);

Answer 4

you can use this code to hide the tool tip change its title and show the tooltip again, when the ajax request returns successfully.

$(element).tooltip('hide');
$(element).attr('title','this is new title');
$(element).tooltip('fixTitle');
setTimeout(function() {  $(element).tooltip('show');}, 500);

Answer 5

This worked for me: (bootstrap 3.3.6; jquery=1.11.3)

<a id="alertTooltip" href="#" data-html="true" class="tooltip" data-toggle="tooltip" title="Tooltip message"></a>

<script>
  $('#alertTooltip').attr('title', "Tooltip new <br /> message").tooltip('fixTitle');
</script>

The attribute data-html="true" allow to use html on the tooltip title.

Answer 6

$(this).attr('data-original-title', 'click here to publish')
       .tooltip('fixTitle')
       .tooltip('show');

Useful if you need to change a tooltip's text after it has been initialized with attr 'data-original-title'.