Bootstrap Popover - how add link in text popover?

Question

You'll need to pass html option with value true while initializing popover like following.

Demo

JS:

$("[data-toggle=popover]")
.popover({html:true})

HTML:

<a href="#" role="button" class="btn popovers" data-toggle="popover" title="" data-content="test content <a href='' title='test add link'>link on content</a>" data-original-title="test title" target="_blank">test link</a>

Simply use the attribute data-html="true".

<button
  data-toggle="popover"
  data-content="Link: <a href='xyz.com'>XYZ</a>"
  data-html="true">
  CLICK
</button>

I used data-trigger="focus" and had an issue with a link in content of popover. If mouse button is clicked on the link and hold for a while then the popover disappears and the link 'doesn't work'. Some clients complained about that.

HTML

<a href="#" role="button" class="btn popovers" data-toggle="popover" data-trigger="focus" title="" data-content="test content <a href='/' title='test add link'>link on content</a>" data-original-title="test title">test link</a>

JS

$("[data-toggle=popover]").popover({html:true})

You can reproduce the problem here.

I used the folowing code to fix the issue:

data-trigger="manual" in html and

$("[data-toggle=popover]")
.popover({ html: true})
    .on("focus", function () {
        $(this).popover("show");
    }).on("focusout", function () {
        var _this = this;
        if (!$(".popover:hover").length) {
            $(this).popover("hide");
        }
        else {
            $('.popover').mouseleave(function() {
                $(_this).popover("hide");
                $(this).off('mouseleave');
            });
        }
    });

If you want to use focus and a link inside the popup you need to prevent the popup to close when clicking inside. The cleanest solution I found was to preventDefault clicks inside a Popup which has the .popover class

$('body')
  .on('mousedown', '.popover', function(e) {
    e.preventDefault()
  });
});