Changing the width of Bootstrap popover

Question

I am designing a page using Bootstrap 3. I am trying to use a popover with placement: right on an input element. The new Bootstrap ensures that if you use

Answer 1

For people who prefer the JavaScript solution. In Bootstrap 4 tip() became getTipElement() and it returns a no jQuery object. So in order to change the width of the popover in Bootstrap 4 you can use:

}).on("show.bs.popover", function() {
    $($(this).data("bs.popover").getTipElement()).css("max-width", "405px");
});

Answer 2

You can use attribute data-container="body" within popover

<i class="fa fa-info-circle" data-container="body" data-toggle="popover"
   data-placement="right" data-trigger="hover" title="Title"
   data-content="Your content"></i>

Answer 3

I had the same problem. Spent quite some time searching for an answer and found my own solution: Add following text to the head:

<style type="text/css">
    .popover{
        max-width:600px;
    }
</style>

Answer 4

To change the popover width you may override the template:

$('#name').popover({
    template: '<div class="popover" role="tooltip" style="width: 500px;"><div class="arrow"></div><h3 class="popover-title"></h3><div class="popover-content"><div class="data-content"></div></div></div>'
})

Answer 5

In bootstrap 4 you can simply override default value of bootstrap variable $popover-max-width in your styles.scss file like so:

$popover-max-width: 300px;

@import "node_modules/bootstrap/scss/functions";
@import "node_modules/bootstrap/scss/variables";
@import "node_modules/bootstrap/scss/mixins";
@import "node_modules/bootstrap/scss/popover";

More on overriding bootstrap 4 defaults https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/getting-started/theming/#variable-defaults

Answer 6

Here's the non-coffeescript way of doing it with hover:

$(".product-search-trigger").popover({
    trigger: "hover",
    container: "body",
    html: true,
    placement: "left"
  }).on("show.bs.popover", function() {
    return $(this).data("bs.popover").tip().css({
      maxWidth: "300px"
    });
  });
});