How to open a Bootstrap modal window using jQuery?
I'm using Twitter Bootstrap modal window functionality. When someone clicks submit on my form, I want to show the modal window upon clicking the "submit button" in the form.
<form id="myform" class="form-wizard">
<h2 class="form-wizard-heading">BootStap Wizzard Form</h2>
<input type="text" value=""/>
<input type="submit"/>
</form>
<!-- Modal -->
<div id="myModal" class="modal hide fade" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
<div class="modal-header">
<button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">×</button>
<h3 id="myModalLabel">Modal header</h3>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
<p>One fine body…</p>
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
<button class="btn" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">Close</button>
<button class="btn btn-primary">Save changes</button>
</div>
</div>
jQuery:
$('#myform').on('submit', function(ev) {
$('#my-modal').modal({
show: 'false'
});
var data = $(this).serializeObject();
json_data = JSON.stringify(data);
$("#results").text(json_data);
$(".modal-body").text(json_data);
// $("#results").text(data);
ev.preventDefault();
});
Bootstrap has a few functions that can be called manually on modals:
$('#myModal').modal('toggle');
$('#myModal').modal('show');
$('#myModal').modal('hide');
You can see more here: Bootstrap modal component
Specifically the methods section.
So you would need to change:
$('#my-modal').modal({
show: 'false'
});
to:
$('#myModal').modal('show');
If you're looking to make a custom popup of your own, here's a suggested video from another community member:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK4nXa84Km4
In addition you can use via data attribute
<button type="button" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal">Launch modal</button>
In this particular case you don't need to use javascript.
You can see more here: http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/javascript.html#modals
Most often, when $('#myModal').modal('show'); doesn't work, it's caused by having included jQuery twice. Including jQuery 2 times makes modals not to work.
Remove one of the links to make it work again.
Furthermore, some plugins cause errors too, in this case add
jQuery.noConflict();
$('#myModal').modal('show');