Do not open the Bootstrap popup in Navbar no matter what

Question

I have a drop-down menu nested in the navigation bar that I open when the page loads, adding a class opento the item licontaining the drop-down menu.

I want this menu to stay open no matter what clicked or where the user clicks on the page. I tried using the various solutions found at Stackoverflow.com for similar problems, but none of them work. It seems that all of them include stopping the propagation of click events when the menu is closed. I am using bootstrap v3.3.4.

EDIT Here is the menu layout:

<div id="navbar" class="navbar-collapse collapse">
    <ul class="nav navbar-nav">

        <li><a href="#" style="color:white;">menu1</a></li>

        <li class="dropdown open">
            <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" id="catalogmenu" aria-expanded="false" style="color:white;">menu 2 <span class="caret"></span></a>
            <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
                <li><a href="#">Action</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Another action</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Something else here</a></li>
                <li class="divider"></li>
                <li class="dropdown-header">Nav header</li>
                <li><a href="#">Separated link</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">One more separated link</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>

        <li><a href="#" style="color:white;">menu3</a></li>

        <li><a href="#" style="color:white;">menu4</a></li>

        <li><a href="#" style="color:white;">menu5</a></li>
    </ul>
    <div class="navbar-form navbar-right">
        <div class="input-group">
            <input type="text" class="form-control" style="width:310px" placeholder="Search" aria-describedby="basic-addon2">
            <span class="input-group-addon" id="basic-addon2">go</span>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Thank.

2 DanDavis - , . , .

Answer 1

css.

ul (.stay-open)

<ul class="dropdown-menu stay-open">

! important

.stay-open {display:block !important;}

Answer 2

, , :

$('li.dropdown').on({
    "shown.bs.dropdown": function() { this.close = false; },
    "click":             function() { this.close = true; },
    "hide.bs.dropdown":  function() { return this.close; }
});

, . , (show.bs.dropdown ) false hide.bs.dropdown.

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