Angular UI Bootstrap popover with close button

Question

I am using Angular UI Bootstrap to create a popover but I am unable to find the option to add a close button inside the popover.

I customized the popover template to include the close button. But I am still unable to find a function/event to close the popover. Setting isOpen to false works for the first time as it just overwrites the function - but thereafter becomes unusable.

 <button popover-placement="bottom" popover="test">POPOVER WITH CLOSE<button>

Here is the template script:

angular.module("template/popover/popover.html", []).run(["$templateCache", function($templateCache) {
  $templateCache.put("template/popover/popover.html",
    "<div class=\"popover {{placement}}\" ng-class=\"{ in: isOpen(), fade: animation() }\">\n" +
    "  <div class=\"arrow\"></div>\n" +
    "\n" +
    "  <div class=\"popover-inner\">\n" +
    "      <button ng-click=\"isOpen = !isOpen()\" class=\"btn-popover-close btn btn-primary\">Close</button>\n" +
    "      <h3 class=\"popover-title\" ng-bind=\"title\" ng-show=\"title\"></h3>\n" +
    "      <div class=\"popover-content\" ng-bind=\"content\"></div>\n" +
    "  </div>\n" +
    "</div>\n" +
    "");
}]);

I thought of writing a directive for close button to trigger the 'click" event of "POPOVER WITH CLOSE" button. But I am not sure if that's the approach to follow.

What's the correct approach to follow?

Answer 1

The right solution now is to specify a popover template via the uib-popover-template attribute and bind your template's close button's ng-click handler to the popover's popover-is-open property. We added this property to allow the user to "ignore" the provided trigger options (by specifying popover-trigger="none" and give the user full control over when to show and hide the popover.

You may see the updated docs (and examples) here.