Bootstrap modal: close current, open new

Question

I have looked for a while, but I can't find a solution for this. I want the following:

• Open an URL inside a Bootstrap modal. I have this working off course. So the content is loaded dynamically.
• When an user pushes a button inside this modal, I want the current modal to hide, and immediately after that, I want a new modal to open with the new URL (which the user clicked on). This content of the 2nd modal is also loaded dynamically.
• If the user then closes that 2nd modal, the first modal must come back again.

I have been staring at this for days, hope someone can help me.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

By using the following code you can hide first modal and immediately open second modal, by using same strategy you can hide second modal and show the first one.

$("#buttonId").on("click", function(){
    $("#currentModalId").modal("hide");
    $("#currentModalId").on("hidden.bs.modal",function(){
    $("#newModalId").modal("show");
    });
});

Answer 2

if you use mdb use this code

    var visible_modal = $('.modal.show').attr('id'); // modalID or undefined
    if (visible_modal) { // modal is active
        $('#' + visible_modal).modal('hide'); // close modal
    }

Answer 3

It's not exactly the response but it's useful when you want to close the current modal and open a new modal.

In the html in the same button, you can ask to close the current modal with data-dismiss and open a new modal directly with data-target:

<button class="btn btn-success" 
data-toggle="modal" 
data-target="#modalRegistration" 
data-dismiss="modal">Register</button>

Answer 4

data-dismiss="modal" 

it is used to close the existing opened model. you can set it to the new model

Answer 5

None of the answers helped me since I wanted to achieve something which was exactly the same as mentioned in the question.

I have created a jQuery plugin for this purpose.

/*
 * Raj: This file is responsible to display the modals in a stacked fashion. Example:
 * 1. User displays modal A
 * 2. User now wants to display modal B -> This will not work by default if a modal is already displayed
 * 3. User dismisses modal B
 * 4. Modal A should now be displayed automatically -> This does not happen all by itself 
 * 
 * Trying to solve problem for: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18253972/bootstrap-modal-close-current-open-new
 * 
 */

var StackedModalNamespace = StackedModalNamespace || (function() {
    var _modalObjectsStack = [];
    return {
        modalStack: function() {
            return _modalObjectsStack;
        },
        currentTop: function() {
            var topModal = null;
            if (StackedModalNamespace.modalStack().length) {
                topModal = StackedModalNamespace.modalStack()[StackedModalNamespace.modalStack().length-1];
            }
            return topModal;
        }
    };
}());

// http://stackoverflow.com/a/13992290/260665 difference between $.fn.extend and $.extend
jQuery.fn.extend({
    // https://api.jquery.com/jquery.fn.extend/
    showStackedModal: function() {
        var topModal = StackedModalNamespace.currentTop();
        StackedModalNamespace.modalStack().push(this);
        this.off('hidden.bs.modal').on('hidden.bs.modal', function(){   // Subscription to the hide event
            var currentTop = StackedModalNamespace.currentTop();
            if ($(this).is(currentTop)) {
                // 4. Unwinding - If user has dismissed the top most modal we need to remove it form the stack and display the now new top modal (which happens in point 3 below)
                StackedModalNamespace.modalStack().pop();
            }
            var newTop = StackedModalNamespace.currentTop();
            if (newTop) {
                // 3. Display the new top modal (since the existing modal would have been hidden by point 2 now)
                newTop.modal('show');
            }
        });
        if (topModal) {
            // 2. If some modal is displayed, lets hide it
            topModal.modal('hide');
        } else {
            // 1. If no modal is displayed, just display the modal
            this.modal('show');
        }
    },
});

Working Fiddle for reference, JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/gumdal/67hzgp5c/

You just have to invoke with my new API "showStackedModal()" instead of just "modal('show')". The hide part can still be the same as before and the stacked approach of showing & hiding the modals are automatically taken care.