Prevent Bootstrap dropdown from closing on clicks

I believe this should be a more proper solution, as stopping propagation on the click event might sometimes cause issues later on in development. You may read more into it here: http://css-tricks.com/dangers-stopping-event-propagation/ Instead this solution stops propagation on the Bootstrap hide (hide.bs.dropdown) event, which stops it from continuing on to the hidden (hidden.bs.dropdown) event.

The following code has been taken and edited by myself to make it work on all Bootstrap dropdowns, as it has originally been taken from here: Preventing bootstrap dropdown from closing on click I personally prefer this way also because it uses the built in Bootstrap dropdown events, which could be found here: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.4/javascript/#dropdowns-events.

  $(function() {
      $('.dropdown').on({
          "click": function(event) {
            if ($(event.target).closest('.dropdown-toggle').length) {
              $(this).data('closable', true);
            } else {
              $(this).data('closable', false);
            }
          },
          "hide.bs.dropdown": function(event) {
            hide = $(this).data('closable');
            $(this).data('closable', true);
            return hide;
          }
      });
  });

You need to stop event from bubbling up the DOM tree:

$('.dropdown-menu').click(function(e) {
    e.stopPropagation();
});

event.stopPropagation prevents event from reaching the node where it's eventually handled by Bootstrap hiding menu.

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/wkc5md23/3/