Question

I want to hide automatically the Bootstrap popovers after a few seconds.
When the user hovers over a control, the popover must be displayed, but if the user doesn’t move the mouse pointer, this popover must be hidden automatically after few seconds.

That is important because in a mobile phone or tablet when the user taps a control, the popover is displayed, and the focus remains on the same control while the user types something, with the popover hindering it.

Answer 1

Note: This solution was written for Bootstrap 3.

This works, though there may be a more efficient method:

$('.pop').popover().click(function () {
    setTimeout(function () {
        $('.pop').popover('hide');
    }, 2000);
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<span class="pop" data-original-title="My popover" data-content="Isn't it great?">Click me</span>

http://jsfiddle.net/isherwood/Bqq7C/27/