toggle doesn't close the dropdown if there are no [data-toggle="dropdown"]

ver 4.1

I’ve created Dropdown in javascript

 $(this.dropDownMenu).dropdown({
                    placement: 'bottom-start',
                    flip: false,
                    reference: this.filterInput
                });

dropDownMenu <ul> element contains both dropdown dropdown-menu

first point: toggle method open it (btw dropdown class is vital there, without it plugin doesn’t work - why?)

second point: toggle doesn’t close it.

Through debugger I see this logic

           // bootstrap dropdown code
          var context = $$$1(toggles[i]).data(DATA_KEY);
          var relatedTarget = {
            relatedTarget: toggles[i]
          };

          if (!context) {
            continue; // here we enter
          }
         //  remove `show`  class will be never passed.

I expecect that Dropdown could be opened and closed manually (through JS) - then requrements to have toggles is excessive (the same is true for dropdown class requirement - you use it to find dropdown-menu but if dropdown-menu by itself is an jquery element - it still should work )

[mkleehammer]

Same. To be clear, I think OP is looking for a way to have a manually controlled dropdown without the automatic data-api triggering it to open.

In my case I’d like to display a dropdown under search input group, but I don’t want the user toggling it open and closed while the search is still executing. I’ll find a workaround, but it would be simpler if there was an alternative markup that would stop the built-in event handler. (I’ll probably go adding the “disabled” class to the input group, which I see the dropdown looks for. Not sure where that rabbit trail leads, though.)

[mdo]

Docs state the requirement about the data attribute in a (hopefully obvious) callout. https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.5/components/dropdowns/#via-javascript

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/commit/f3d0fee91ec30aa6cde08de821b06fd6f337a3a3

Beyond that, I don’t think there are any planned changes to how dropdowns work here unless @Johann-S wants to revisit things.