Question

Is there an event that I can tie into that is fired when a bootstrap dropdown is closed or toggled?

Answer 1

In the end, the only reliable method that I found was to use jquery’s data api to store the state of the dropdown and add click events to the button and the document.

$(document).ready(function() {

    $('#dropdown').data('open', false);

    $('#dropdown-button').click(function() {
        if($('#dropdown').data('open')) {
            $('#dropdown').data('open', false);
            update_something();
        } else
            $('#dropdown').data('open', true);
    });

    $(document).click(function() {
        if($('#dropdown').data('open')) {
            $('#dropdown').data('open', false);
            update_something();
        }
    });

});