From the Docs on Popovers:
Opt-in functionality:
For performance reasons, the Tooltip and Popover data-apis are opt-in, meaning you must initialize them yourself.
So you must call .popover()
manually in JavaScript like this:
$("[data-toggle=popover]").popover();
Or you can use whatever selector you want
Here’s an example using StackSnippets.
$("[data-toggle=popover]").popover();
body {
padding: 50px;
}
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-lg btn-danger"
data-toggle="popover" title="Popover title"
data-content="And here's some amazing content. It's very engaging. Right?">
Click to toggle popover
</button>
Note: This is similar to the answer to Bootstrap Tooltip Not Showing Up