Question

I’m using method: :delete on a link in rails, and trying to get a bootstrap tooltip on it.

This doesn’t show a tooltip:

=link_to "destroy", blog_path(blog), "data-original-title" => "Delete your answer", "data-placement" => "top", :rel => "tooltip", method: :delete

However, if I remove the method: :delete, the tooltip works.

How can I get a tooltip on a delete link?

Answer 1

I had the same problem and didn’t find any suitable solution so I started tinkering with it myself.

If you remove the :rel => "tooltip" and add anything else, for example :rel => "nofollow", and then call $('a[rel="nofollow"]').tooltip() manually it works.

Here’s the final result:

<%= link_to "destroy", blog_path(blog), "data-original-title" => "Delete your answer", "data-placement" => "top", :rel => "nofollow", method: :delete %>

And also add the code to show the tooltip after this:

<script type="text/javascript">
  $(function() {
    $('a[rel="nofollow"]').tooltip();
  });
</script>

EDIT: this is not a issue anymore.