Can not get a simple bootstrap modal to work

Question

I am trying to get a simple bootstrap's modal sample to work, I follow this document which says " You can activate modals on your page easily without having to write a single line of javascript. Just give an element a data-controls-modal attribute which corresponds to a modal element id, ...", but I have done whatever I could and had a huge amount of research still can not get this simple modal to work.

<div class="modal" id="myModal">
<div class="modal-header">
<button class="close" data-dismiss="modal">×</button>
<h3>Modal header</h3>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
<p>One fine body…</p>
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
<a href="#" class="btn">Close</a>
<a href="#" class="btn btn-primary">Save changes</a>
</div>
</div>

I have either this:

<a class="btn" data-controls-modal="myModal">Launch Modal</a>

or this:

<a class="btn" data-toggle="modal" href="#myModal" >Launch Modal</a>

button to activate the modal, I have loaded the bootstrap-modal.js on the page as well. Unless I added a javascript line to handle the "Launch Modal" click event, when I click on "Launch Modal", nothing happens at all, are there anything that I have missed?

Answer 1

For me the bootstrap modal was showing and disappearing when I clicked the button tag (in the markup the modal is shown and hidden using data attributes alone). In my gulpfile.js I added the bootstrap.js (which had the modal logic) and the modal.js file. So I think after the browser parses and executes both the files, two click event handlers are attached to the particular dom element (one for each of the files), so one shows the modal the other hides the modal. Hope this helps someone.

Answer 2

Try skipping the p tag or replace it with a h3 tag or similar. Replace:

<p>One fine body…</p>

with

<h3>One fine body…</h3>

It worked for me, I don't know why, but it seems the p tag is somehow not fully compatible with some versions of Bootstrap.

Answer 3

<div class="modal fade bs-example-modal-lg" id="{{'modal'+ cartModal.index}}">
  <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg" role="document">
    <div class="modal-content">
      <div class="modal-header">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"  aria-label="Close"><span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span></button>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-body">
          <div class="col-lg-6" >
            <p class="prodTitle" ng-bind="(cartModal.product.p_name|uppercase)"></p>
            <p class="price-para">
              <span class="currency-cls" ng-bind="cartModal.product.c_currency"></span>
              <span class="price-cls" ng-bind="cartModal.product.p_price"></span>
            </p>
            <p class="select-color">
              <span ng-repeat="color in cartModal.product.p_available_options.colors">
                <button id="color-style" ng-click="cartModal.saveColor(color)" ng-style="{'background-color':color.hexcode}"></button>
              </span>
            </p>
            <br>
            <p class="select-box">
              <span class="size-select-cls">
                SIZE:<select ng-init="items=cartModal.product.p_available_options.sizes" ng-model="cartModal.selectedSize" ng-options="item.code as
                item.name for item in items"></select>
              </span>
              <span class="qty">
                QTY:<input type="number"  min="1" ng-model="cartModal.selectedQty"/>
              </span>
            </p>
            <p class="edit-button">
              <button class="btn-primary btn-lg" data-dismiss="modal" ng-click="cartModal.save();cartModal.calculate()">EDIT</button>
            </p>
          </div>
          <div class="col-lg-6">
            <img ng-src="{{cartModal.product.imageSrc}}">
          </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Answer 4

I was having this same problem using Angular CLI. I needed to import the bootstrap.js.min file in the .angular-cli.json file:

  "scripts": ["../node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js",
              "../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js"],

Answer 5

You must call your Bootstrap jQuery plugin so that it will trigger.

Answer 6

I finally found this solution from "Sven" and solved the problem. what I did was I included "bootstrap.min.js" with:

<script src="bootstrap.min.js"/>

instead of:

<script src="bootstrap.min.js"></script>

and it fixed the problem which looked really odd. can anyone explain why?