Changing the width of twitter bootstrap popover

Question

I am trying to change the width of twitter bootstrap popover using bootstrap 3:

<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-container="body" data-toggle="popover" data-placement="right" data-content="Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus.">

$('#popover').popover(options)

At the moment the content in the popover spreads over two lines. I want the popover content to stay on one line. Is this possible?

I am using C#, html and css.

Answer 1

You can change the popover's dimensions with CSS:

.popover{
    width:200px;
    height:250px;    
}

But that CSS will change ALL popovers. What you need to do is put the button in a container element and use CSS like this:

#containerElem .popover {
  width:200px;
  height:250px;
  max-width:none; // Required for popovers wider than 276px (Bootstrap's max-width for popovers)
}

You also need to change data-container="#containerElem" to match your container.

NOTE: If your popover is going to have a width greater than 276px, you need to override the max-width property as well. So add max-width: none to the .popover {} class.

Here's a jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/4FMmA/

Answer 2

If you want to controle the width in javascript:

HTML (example from Bootstrap)

<button id="exampleButton" type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-container="body" data-toggle="popover" data-placement="top" data-content="Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus.">
  Popover on top</button>

Javascript:

We set the max-width when show.bs.popover event is triggered:

var p = $("#exampleButton").popover();
p.on("show.bs.popover", function(e){
    p.data("bs.popover").tip().css({"max-width": "500px"});
});

http://jsfiddle.net/ctoesca/u3kSk

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• You can also add a data-max-width attribute on the button element and get the value in the trigger function:

p.on("show.bs.popover", function(e){
    var w = $(this).attr("data-max-width");
    p.data("bs.popover").tip().css({"max-width": w});
});