Load content with ajax in bootstrap modal

Question

I am trying to have my bootstrap modal retrieve data using ajax:

<a href="{{ path('ajax_get_messages', { 'superCategoryID': 35, 'sex': sex }) }}" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#birthday-modal">
  <img src="{{ asset('bundles/yopyourownpoet/images/messageCategories/BirthdaysAnniversaries.png') }}" alt="Birthdays" height="120" width="109"/>
</a>

My modal:

<div id="birthday-modal" class="modal hide fade">
<div class="modal-header">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">&times;</button>
    <h3>Birthdays and Anniversaries</h3>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">

</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
    <a href="#" data-dismiss="modal" class="btn">Close</a>
    {#<button class="btn" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">Close</button>#}
</div>
</div>

When I click on the link, the modal is shown but the body is empty. Besides, I don't see any ajax request being made. I am using Bootstrap 2.1.1

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Easily done in Bootstrap 3 like so:

<a data-toggle="modal" href="remote.html" data-target="#modal">Click me</a>

Answer 2

The top voted answer is deprecated in Bootstrap 3.3 and will be removed in v4. Try this instead:

JavaScript:

// Fill modal with content from link href
$("#myModal").on("show.bs.modal", function(e) {
    var link = $(e.relatedTarget);
    $(this).find(".modal-body").load(link.attr("href"));
});

Html (Based on the official example. Note that for Bootstrap 3.* we set data-remote="false" to disable the deprecated Bootstrap load function):

<!-- Link trigger modal -->
<a href="remoteContent.html" data-remote="false" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal" class="btn btn-default">
    Launch Modal
</a>

<!-- Default bootstrap modal example -->
<div class="modal fade" id="myModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
  <div class="modal-dialog">
    <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>
        <h4 class="modal-title" id="myModalLabel">Modal title</h4>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-body">
        ...
      </div>
      <div class="modal-footer">
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Save changes</button>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Try it yourself: https://jsfiddle.net/ednon5d1/

Answer 3

Here is how I solved the issue, might be useful to some:

Ajax modal doesn't seem to be available with boostrap 2.1.1

So I ended up coding it myself:

$('[data-toggle="modal"]').click(function(e) {
  e.preventDefault();
  var url = $(this).attr('href');
  //var modal_id = $(this).attr('data-target');
  $.get(url, function(data) {
      $(data).modal();
  });
});

Example of a link that calls a modal:

<a href="{{ path('ajax_get_messages', { 'superCategoryID': 6, 'sex': sex }) }}" data-toggle="modal">
    <img src="{{ asset('bundles/yopyourownpoet/images/messageCategories/BirthdaysAnniversaries.png') }}" alt="Birthdays" height="120" width="109"/>
</a>

I now send the whole modal markup through ajax.

Credits to drewjoh