How to properly anchor popovers in Bootstrap 3x - twitter-bootstrap-3

Question

If you look at the bootstrap demo that is hosted here And scroll down to the demo that has all 4 buttons. Now click on the left popover, it shows properly. However, When I shrink or extend the screen the popover is no longer anchored to the proper point. Is there a way around this?

Answer 1

This has to do with the container property for the popover.
http://jsfiddle.net/yvkhbw4b/1/
See the attached example. Show both popovers then resize the window from xs breakpoint to sm breakpoint. You will see the top item will seperate from the button as the container defaults to body. (I'm also setting it to body though options). The second item is attached to the parent div so that one remains attached to the element even though the breakpoint changed.
Documentation on popover options
Appends the popover to a specific element. Example: container: 'body'.
This option is particularly useful in that it allows you to position
the popover in the flow of the document near the triggering element -
which will prevent the popover from floating away from the triggering
element during a window resize.
$('#btn1').popover({
'container': 'body'
});
$('#btn2').popover({
'container': '.col-sm-12'
});
Potential Fix: you could add the following code. Currently only handles bottom aligned popovers but you can add options for other alignments.
$(window).resize(function () {
$('.popover.in').each(function () {
var el = $('[aria-describedby="' + this.id + '"]');
if ($(this).hasClass('bottom')){
$(this).css('top',el.offset().top + el.outerHeight(true));
}
});
});
http://jsfiddle.net/yvkhbw4b/2/