How do you create and modify popover in Bootstrap 5 using jquery?

Does someone know how I can create and add data to bootstrap 5 popover via javascript/jquery?

With bootstrap 3 I was able to do this:

$('#element').popover({ placement : 'left', trigger : 'focus', html: true });
let content_template = `<h1>Hello World!</h1>`;
$('#element').data('bs.popover').options.content = content_template;

But I can't figure out how I can do the same with bootstrap 5. The documentation doesn't mention anything about this. Does anyone know how popovers are managed in BS5?

Solution

You need to get instance of popover and then use popover_instance._config.content ="some message" to set new content inside your popover .

Demo Code :

new bootstrap.Popover(document.querySelector('[data-bs-toggle]'), {
  placement: 'left',
  trigger: 'focus',
  html: true
})
//get instance
var popover_instance = bootstrap.Popover.getInstance(document.querySelector('[data-bs-toggle]'))
let content_template = `<h1>Hello World!</h1>`;
popover_instance._config.content = content_template;//set content

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-EVSTQN3/azprG1Anm3QDgpJLIm9Nao0Yz1ztcQTwFspd3yD65VohhpuuCOmLASjC" crossorigin="anonymous">
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js" integrity="sha384-MrcW6ZMFYlzcLA8Nl+NtUVF0sA7MsXsP1UyJoMp4YLEuNSfAP+JcXn/tWtIaxVXM" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-lg btn-danger" data-bs-toggle="popover" title="Popover title">Click to toggle popover</button>