How do I show a bootstrap tooltip with an SVG object?

Question

I'm going crazy trying to understand why I can show tooltips on regular HTML elements, but not on D3-generated SVGs: http://jsfiddle.net/nachocab/eQmYX/5/

What am I doing wrong?

$(document).ready(function () {
    $("a").tooltip({
      'placement': 'bottom'
    }); // this works

    $("my_circle").tooltip({
      'placement': 'bottom'
    }); // this does not work
});

Answer 1

The problem was that the tooltip that Bootstrap v2.2.2 generates is a <div> that was getting inserted inside the <svg>, which made the browser not render it.

I ended up using the latest development version of Bootstrap Tooltip, which adds a new parameter to determine the container of the tooltip. Now I can do:

$(".my_circle").tooltip({
    'container': 'body',
    'placement': 'bottom'
}); // this works!

EDIT - One year later

For the record, I dropped the jQuery requirement and I'm now using the excellent d3-tip by Justin Palmer.