How to render a React component inside a Bootstrap popover

If we want our React component’s content to appear inside the Bootstrap popover, we need to render the component inside the Bootstrap popover.

Redering a React component inside a Bootstrap popover
Redering a React component inside a Bootstrap popover

We’ll follow a simple example to understand the rendering of a React component inside a Bootstrap popover. Here’s a step-by-step explanation:

Steps

  1. We first create the component we want to render in Bootstrap popover. For this, we create a components folder inside the src folder of our React application. We then create a file named PopoverContent.js inside the src/components folder. Here’s what the PopoverContent.js file contains:

const MyComponent = () => {
  return <div>This is a sample content that will appear in the popup when button is clicked.</div>;
};
export default MyComponent;
PopoverContent.js

  1. Next, we import this component inside the App.js file of our React application so that we can render it there. 

import MyComponent from './components/PopoverContent'

  1. Then, we create a simple Bootstrap popover in the App.js file. For this, we need to import the OverlayTrigger and Popover components. OverlayTrigger is not a standalone component and is used with Bootstrap popover and tooltip. It wraps any target element, for example, a button. When it interacts with this target element, it triggers the display of a Bootstrap popover or tooltip. So, to create a popover, we use <OverlayTrigger/> and inside its overlay property, we render the Bootstrap’s popover component using the <Popover></Popover> tag.

import React from 'react';
import 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css';
import { OverlayTrigger, Popover} from 'react-bootstrap';
import MyComponent from './components/PopoverContent'
function App() {
	return (
	  <div>
	  <OverlayTrigger trigger="click" placement="right" overlay={
		 <Popover>
		 </Popover>
	  }>
       </OverlayTrigger>
	  </div>
	);
  }
export default App;
Creating the Bootstrap popover and overlay triggers

  1. We render MyComponent inside <Popover></Popover> because we want our component’s content to appear inside the Bootstrap popover.

function App() {
	return (
	  <div>
	  <OverlayTrigger trigger="click" placement="right" overlay={
		 <Popover>
         <MyComponent/>
		 </Popover>
	  }>
       </OverlayTrigger>
	  </div>
	);
  }
  export default App;
Rendering a component inside a Bootstrap popover

  1. Note that <OverlayTrigger/> has a trigger='click' property. It means that popover is triggered only when a button is clicked. So, we create a button wrapped inside <OverlayTrigger/>.

Note: We can use multiple other options, such as hover, focus, manual, etc., instead of click in the trigger property. click is just used as an example to show the content of the rendered component inside the popover when a button is clicked. 

function App() {
	return (
	  <div>
	  <OverlayTrigger trigger="click" placement="right" overlay={
		 <Popover>
         <MyComponent/>
		 </Popover>
	  }>
       <button>Click me</button>
       </OverlayTrigger>
	  </div>
	);
  }
  export default App;
Creating a button to trigger the popover

Code

Here’s the complete executable code of the example followed above:

import React from 'react';

const MyComponent = () => {
  return <div>This is a sample content that will appear in the popup when button is clicked.</div>;
};

export default MyComponent;
Code to render a React component inside a Bootstrap popover

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