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

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?

Answer 2

Fiddle 1: a replica of the modal used on the twitter bootstrap site. (This is the modal that doesn't display by default, but that launches when you click on the demo button.)

http://jsfiddle.net/9RcDN/

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Fiddle 2: a replica of the modal described in the bootstrap documentation, but that incorporates the necessary elements to avoid the use of any javascript. Note especially the inclusion of the hide class on #myModal div, and the use of data-dismiss="modal" on the Close button.

http://jsfiddle.net/aPDVM/4/

<a class="btn" data-toggle="modal" href="#myModal">Launch Modal</a>   <div class="modal hide" id="myModal"><!-- note the use of "hide" class -->   <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" data-dismiss="modal">Close</a><!-- note the use of "data-dismiss" -->     <a href="#" class="btn btn-primary">Save changes</a>   </div> </div>​ 

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It's also worth noting that the site you are using is running on bootstrap 2.0, while the official twitter bootstrap site is on 2.0.3.