Close Bootstrap modal from inside iframe

Question

Page which opens Twitter Bootstrap Modal with iframe inside:

<div id="iframeModal" class="modal hide fade" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
    <div class="modal-header">
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-danger pull-right" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">Close</button>
        <div class="clearfix"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="modal-body">
        <iframe src="iframe-modal.html"></iframe> 
    </div>
    <div class="modal-footer">
    </div>
</div>

And I am looking for a way to close this modal from inside the iframe. Ex. clicking a link inside the iframe-modal.html to close the modal. What I have tried, but non successful:

$('#iframeModal', window.parent.document).modal('hide');
$('#iframeModal', top.document).modal('hide');
$('#iframeModal').modal('hide');

Answer 1

You can also trigger the click the close button:

$('#iframeModal button.mce-close', parent.document).trigger('click');

Answer 2

The issue is that jQuery events are being registered with the individual page's instance of jQuery. So, $('#iframeModal', window.parent.document).modal('hide'); is actually going to trigger the hide event in the iframe, not the parent document.

This should work: parent.$('#iframeModal').modal('hide');

This will use the parent's instance of jQuery to find the item (so no context is needed), and it will then fire the event correctly in the parent.

Answer 3

You can always create a globally accessible function which closes the Bootstrap modal window.

eg.

window.closeModal = function(){
    $('#iframeModal').modal('hide');
};

Then from the iframe, call it using:

window.parent.closeModal();

Answer 4

One more solution in case you don't know id of modal which use iframe :

Add function CloseModal

function CloseModal(frameElement) {
     if (frameElement) {
        var dialog = $(frameElement).closest(".modal");
        if (dialog.length > 0) {
            dialog.modal("hide");
        }
     }
}

where frameElement is reference to iframe element container.

And this parameter can be passed from iframe like so:

window.parent.CloseModal(window.frameElement);

More about window.frameElement you can find here