Dropdowns using Tether?

[719media]

Tether js for dropdowns?

I like the improvements Tether provides for tooltips/popovers in bootstrap v4. Is there a reason it was not implemented for dropdowns?

This would help with having dropdowns flow outside of overflows, as well as positioning.

Example:
https://jsfiddle.net/719media/0f8vc7td/

The idea here is that I should not have to write custom event handlers to capture the dropdowns and introduce tether.

[cvrebert]

Overlaps with #17167.

[cvrebert]

Is there a reason it was not implemented for dropdowns?

No deliberate reason. Patches welcomed.
Dropdowns in Bootstrap v3 didn't dynamically position themselves like Tooltips/Popovers do, so there wasn't any relevant Dropdown positioning JS to rewrite when we migrated to Tether in v4-dev.

[719media]

Please see #19692

[davidklebanoff]

Another option is #19673.

[719media]

closing this in preference of pull request #22444