Popovers
Popovers are similar to tooltips in that they can provide users with additional information about an element, but they are designed to show a little more content, as popovers also allow you to display a header.
Popovers are defined in a similar fashion to a popup, by adding the data-toggle
, data-placement
, data-content
, and title
attributes to an element. The following markup displays a popup when a user clicks on an anchor <a>
element:
<a data-content="The protagonist of Franz Kafka's short story The Metamorphosis" data-placement="bottom" data-toggle="popover" href="#" >Gregor Samsa</a>
Setting the data-toggle
attribute to popover
specifies to the plugin that it needs to show a popover. The data-content
attribute contains the content that will be shown inside the popover, and the data-original-title
attribute sets the title of the popover. The data-placement
attribute indicates the placement of the popover and supports four values, namely top
, bottom
, left...