Namespace collision with Bootstrap

[briatx]

There's a namespace collision with this plugin and bootstrap dropdowns. Both try to extend $.fn.dropdown in jquery. End result is that all bootstrap dropdowns stop working after one of the jquery-dropdowns is clicked.

I fixed it by renaming everything called 'dropdown' in this project to 'jq_dropdown'.

[claviska]

Fair enough, but this is intended for those who aren't or don't want to use bootstrap. What's your use-case for requiring both in the same app?

[briatx]

Yeah, it does seem a bit odd, huh.

I went with jquery-dropdown for certain controls because it handled embedding of form elements (particularly checkboxes) correctly. Bootstrap dropdowns would close even if clicking a checkbox... which is not optimal behavior.

But the site itself was based off of Bootstrap. I tried to replace some of the bootstrap dropdowns with jquery-dropdown (mainly the user menu in the navbar) and that didn't work either. So I ended up having to track down the namespace collision and fix it.

Anyway, just wanted to record it in case other people had similar problems.

[Calaelen]

Your Dropdown is a very good "addon" for the bootstrap framework - mainly because of the Select Box feature. Bootstrap can only display a big multiselect box without a dropdown :-(

[laurentdebricon]

too bad for the collision. Also, even after some renaming , using jquery-dropdown , then trying to trigger a bootstrap dropdown doesn't work anymore.

[OndraM]

I'd also like to use this plugin in bootstrap based project. The reasons are above... And I guess create own namespace isn't such a problem :-/.

[OndraM]

For those interested, I've created an fork, changing namespace to jqdropdown. Now it works just fine. Feel free to get it here: https://github.com/OndraM/jquery-dropdown