How to show twitter bootstrap modal via JS request

Question

I want to show a twitter bootstrap modal as a response to a JS request. My show.js.erb function looks something like this:

$(document).ready(function() {

    $('#dialog').modal('show')

});

Here "dialog" is the modal's id. The modal code itself looks something like this:

<div id="dialog" class="modal hide fade">
    <div class="modal-header">
          <a href="#" class="close">&times;</a>
          <h3> Showing Modal </h3>
    </div>
    <div class="modal-body">
        I need to show up!
    </div>
    <div class="modal-footer">
        <a href="#" class="btn primary">Done</a>
    </div>
</div>

One thing I am sure of is that the javascript is being called. I can have it alter items on the page. Another thing is that modal is working fine. It shows up just fine when I use an HTML button to trigger the request like this:

<button data-controls-modal="dialog" data-backdrop="true" data-keyboard="true" class="btn danger"> Show </button>

Any idea why the modal doesn't show up on JS request?

Thank You!

Answer 1

I am not aware of a jquery "modal" function. It looks like you are trying to get the element#dialog to show up. You could simply do:

$("#dialog").show();

Or am I totally missing the question?