Changing the position of Bootstrap popovers based on the popover's X position in relation to window edge?

Question

I have scoured the Internet far and wide and while I found this stackoverflow post insightful Is it possible to change the position of Bootstrap popovers based on screen width?, it still didn't answer my question, likely due to my trouble understanding position/offset.

Here's what I'm trying to do. I want the Twitter Bootstap Popover position to be RIGHT unless the hotspot popover will be positioned beyond the viewport, then I want it to be positioned LEFT. I'm making an iPad web app that has hot spots, when you push on a hotspot, information appears but I don't want it to appear outside of the viewport when horizontal scrolling is locked.

I'm thinking it'd go something like this:

$('.infopoint').popover({
        trigger:'hover',
        animation: false,
        placement: wheretoplace 
    });
    function wheretoplace(){
        var myLeft = $(this).offset.left;

        if (myLeft<500) return 'left';
        return 'right';
    }

Thoughts? Thanks!

Answer 1

I just noticed that the placement option could either be a string or a function returning a string that makes the calculation each time you click on a popover-able link.

This makes it real easy to replicate what you did without the initial $.each function:

var options = {
    placement: function (context, source) {
        var position = $(source).position();

        if (position.left > 515) {
            return "left";
        }

        if (position.left < 515) {
            return "right";
        }

        if (position.top < 110){
            return "bottom";
        }

        return "top";
    }
    , trigger: "click"
};
$(".infopoint").popover(options);