Bootstrap popover content cannot changed dynamically

Question

I use the code as follows:

$(".reply").popover({
  content: "Loading...",
  placement: "bottom"
});

$(".reply").popover("toggle");

which creates the popover and its content correctly. I want to load a new data into the popover without closing the popover.

I've tried the following:

var thisVal = $(this);
$.ajax({
  type: "POST",
  async: false,
  url: "Getdes",
  data: { id: ID }
}).success(function(data) {
  thisVal.attr("data-content", data);
});

After this call the data in the element is changed but not in the popover which is shown.

How should i do this?

Answer 1

If you grab the popover instance like this:

var popover = $('.reply').data('bs.popover');

Then, to redraw the popover, use the .setContent() method:

popover.setContent();

I found out browsing the source: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/js/popover.js

So, in your example, try:

thisVal.attr('data-content',data).data('bs.popover').setContent();

Update

The setContent() method also removes the placement class, so you should do:

var popover = thisVal.attr('data-content',data).data('bs.popover');
popover.setContent();
popover.$tip.addClass(popover.options.placement);

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/44RvK