How to Prevent Bootstrap Dropdown from Closing When Clicking Inside?

Prevent closing on click inside dropdown menu

In Twitter Bootstrap, dropdown menu will close on click (even click inside menu) . To avoid this, you can attach a click event handler to the dropdown and add the famous event.stopPropagation().

<code class="html"><ul class="nav navbar-nav">
  <li class="dropdown mega-dropdown">
    <a href="javascript:;" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">
      <i class="fa fa-list-alt"></i> Menu item 1
      <span class="fa fa-chevron-down pull-right"></span>
    </a>
    <ul class="dropdown-menu mega-dropdown-menu">
      <li>
        <div id="carousel" class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel">
          <ol class="carousel-indicators">
            <li data-slide-to="0" data-target="#carousel"></li>
            <li class="active" data-slide-to="1" data-target="#carousel"></li>
          </ol>
          <div class="carousel-inner">
            <div class="item">
              <img alt="" class="img-rounded" src="img1.jpg">
            </div>
            <div class="item active">
              <img alt="" class="img-rounded" src="img2.jpg">
            </div>
          </div>
          <a data-slide="prev" role="button" href="#carousel" class="left carousel-control">
            <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-left"></span>
          </a>
          <a data-slide="next" role="button" href="#carousel" class="right carousel-control">
            <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-right"></span>
          </a>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul></code>

This method seems easy and very common, but because the event handlers of carousel-controls (and carousel indicators) are delegated to the document object, it is not suitable for these elements (prev/next controls, etc. ) will be "ignored".

<code class="js">$('ul.dropdown-menu.mega-dropdown-menu').on('click', function(event){
    // 不会向document 节点传播事件
    // 所以委托的事件不会被触发
    event.stopPropagation();
});</code>

Relying on Twitter Bootstrap's dropdown hide/hidden events is not a solution for the following reasons:

• The event objects provided by these two event handlers do not reference the clicked element .
• There is no control over the contents of the dropdown menu, so the flag class or attribute cannot be added.

The following is a fiddle demo of normal behavior and a fiddle demo with event.stopPropagation() added.

Update

Thanks Roman for the answer. I also found another answer, as follows:

<code class="js">$(document).on('click', 'someyourContainer .dropdown-menu', function (e) {
  e.stopPropagation();
});</code>

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