Question

I’ve got an application receiving some data through AJAX-call. After that, received data binds to DOM-elements using knockout.js library. I’d like to use boostrap’s unobtrusive markup for creating popovers like this:

<table class="table table-condensed" data-bind="foreach: items">
    <tr>
        <td><b data-bind="text: $data.id"></b></td>
        <td data-bind="text: $data.title"></td>
        <td><a href="#" rel="popover" data-bind="attr: {title: $data.info}" data-placement="top">Info</a></td>
    </tr>
</table>

According to the latest bootstrap documentation, implicit call of something like $('.popover').popover() isn’t required, however, it’s not working.

I suppose, that boostrap.js perform some DOM-analysis on document.ready and perform all needed work for popover to work. And the question: is there some way to tell bootstrap.js to perform similar job for data after receiving AJAX response? Or how this kind of requirements can be achieved?

Answer 1

You can create custom dataBinding to make that element popover. Check this jsfiddle demo

ko.bindingHandlers.bootstrapPopover = {
    init: function(element, valueAccessor, allBindingsAccessor, viewModel) {
        var options = ko.utils.unwrapObservable(valueAccessor());
        var defaultOptions = {};        
        options = $.extend(true, {}, defaultOptions, options);
        $(element).popover(options);
    }
};

var viewModel = {

    items: ko.observableArray([{
        "id": 1,
        "title": "title-1",
        "info": "info-1"},
    {
        "id": 2,
        "title": "title-2",
        "info": "info-2"},
    {
        "id": 3,
        "title": "title-3",
        "info": "info-3"}])

}

ko.applyBindings(viewModel);​

And html

<div class="container">
    <div class="hero-unit">     
        <table class="table table-condensed" data-bind="foreach: items">
            <tr>
                <td><b data-bind="text: $data.id"></b></td>
                <td data-bind="text: $data.title"></td>
                <td><a href="#" data-bind="bootstrapPopover : {content : $data.info  }">Info</a></td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </div>
</div>​