How to get twitter bootstrap modal to close (after initial launch)

Question

I'm very much a noob, so I think I'm overseeing something (probably obvious) with twitter bootstrap modal. What I am trying to do is get a modal to launch only on mobile. This works fine with adding the class .visible-phone on the modal div. So far so good. But then I want it to work, meaning you can close it with the X button. And I cannot get the button to work.

<div class="modal visible-phone" id="myModal">
  <div class="modal-header">
    <button class="close" data-dismiss="modal">×</button>
    <h3>text introductory<br>want to navigate to...</h3>
 </div>
 <div class="modal-body">
    <ul class="nav">
      <li> ... list of links here </li>
    </ul>
   </div>
  </div>

In the bottom of the html I put jquery.js (first) and bootstrap.modal.js and bootstrap.transition.js. Actually all of the bootstrap js modules (not to miss an include). I'm not experienced with js..

Please forgive me if I posed a really stupid Q. I could not find the answer to this specific situation in the log.

Answer 1

$('#myModal').modal('hide') should do it

Answer 2

I had problems closing the bootstrap modal dialog, if it was opened with:

$('#myModal').modal('show');

I solved this problem opening the dialog by the following link:

<a href="#myModal" data-toggle="modal">Open my dialog</a>

Do not forget the initialization:

$('#myModal').modal({show: false});

I also used the following attributes for the closing button:

data-dismiss="modal" data-target="#myModal"

Answer 3

Add the class hide to the modal

<!-- Modal Demo -->
<div class="modal hide" id ="myModal" aria-hidden="true" >

Javascript Code

 <!-- Use this to hide the modal necessary for loading and closing the modal-->
 <script>
     $(function(){
         $('#closeModal').click(function(){
              $('#myModal').modal('hide');
          });
      });
 </script>

 <!-- Use this to load the modal necessary for loading and closing the modal-->
 <script>
     $(function () {
         $('#myModal').modal('show');
     });
  </script>

Answer 4

.modal('hide') manually hides a modal. Use following code to close your bootstrap model

$('#myModal').modal('hide');

Take a look at working codepen here

Or

Try here

$(function () {
    $(".custom-close").on('click', function() {
        $('#myModal').modal('hide');
    });
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<!-- Button trigger modal -->
<button class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal">
  Launch demo modal
</button>

<!-- Modal -->
<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-hidden="true">&times;</button>
        <h4 class="modal-title" id="myModalLabel">Modal title</h4>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-body">
        
          
          <a class="custom-close"> My Custom Close Link </a>
          
          
      </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><!-- /.modal-content -->
  </div><!-- /.modal-dialog -->
</div><!-- /.modal -->

Answer 5

Try specifying exactly the modal that the button should close with data-target. So your button should look like the following -

<button class="close" data-dismiss="modal" data-target="#myModal">×</button>

Also, you should only need bootstrap.modal.js so you can safely remove the others.

Edit: if this doesn't work then remove the visible-phone class and test it on your PC browser instead of the phone. This will show whether you are getting javascript errors or if its a compatibility issue for example.

Edit: Demo code

<html>
<head>
    <title>Test</title>
    <link href="/Content/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <script src="/Scripts/jquery-1.7.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="/Scripts/bootstrap.modal.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

    <script type="text/javascript">
      $(document).ready(function () {
        if( navigator.userAgent.match(/Android/i)
            || navigator.userAgent.match(/webOS/i)
            || navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)
            || navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i)
            || navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i)
            || navigator.userAgent.match(/BlackBerry/i)
          ) {
          $("#myModal").modal("show");
        }

        $("#myModalClose").click(function () {
          $("#myModal").modal("hide");
        });
      });
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="modal hide" id="myModal">
      <div class="modal-header">
        <a class="close" id="myModalClose">×</a>
        <h3>text introductory<br>want to navigate to...</h3>
     </div>
     <div class="modal-body">
        <ul class="nav">
          <li> ... list of links here </li>
        </ul>
   </div>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

Answer 6

According the documentaion hide / toggle should work. But it don't.

Here is how I did it

$('#modal-id').modal('toggle'); //Hide the modal dialog
$('.modal-backdrop').remove(); //Hide the backdrop
$("body").removeClass( "modal-open" ); //Put scroll back on the Body

Answer 7

Try on this..

$('body').removeClass('modal-open');

$('.modal-backdrop').remove();

Answer 8

I had the same problem in the iphone or desktop, didnt manage to close the dialog when pressing the close button.

i found out that The <button> tag defines a clickable button and is needed to specify the type attribute for a element as follow:

<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>

check the example code for bootstrap modals at : BootStrap javascript Page

Answer 9

If you have few modal shown simultaneously you can specify target modal for in-modal button with attributes data-toggle and data-target:

<div class="modal fade in" id="sendMessageModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-hidden="true">
      <div class="modal-dialog modal-sm">
           <div class="modal-content">
                <div class="modal-header text-center">
                     <h4 class="modal-title">Modal Title</h4>
                     <small>Modal Subtitle</small>
                </div>
                <div class="modal-body">
                     <p>Modal content text</p>
                </div>
                <div class="modal-footer">
                     <button type="button" class="btn btn-default pull-left" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#sendMessageModal">Close</button>
                     <button type="button" class="btn btn-danger" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#sendMessageModal">Send</button>
                </div>
           </div>
      </div>
 </div>

Somewhere outside the modal code you can have another toggle button:

<a href="index.html#" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#sendMessageModal">Resend Message</a>

User can't click in-modal toggle button while these button hidden and it correct works with option "modal" for attribute data-toggle. This scheme works automagicaly!

Answer 10

Here is a snippet for not only closing modals without page refresh but when pressing enter it submits modal and closes without refresh

I have it set up on my site where I can have multiple modals and some modals process data on submit and some don't. What I do is create a unique ID for each modal that does processing. For example in my webpage:

HTML (modal footer):

 <div class="modal-footer form-footer"><br>
              <span class="caption">
                <button id="PreLoadOrders" class="btn btn-md green btn-right" type="button" disabled>Add to Cart&nbsp; <i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i></button>     
                <button id="ClrHist" class="btn btn-md red btn-right" data-dismiss="modal" data-original-title="" title="Return to Scan Order Entry" type="cancel">Cancel&nbsp; <i class="fa fa-close"></i></a>
              </span>
      </div>

jQUERY:

$(document).ready(function(){
// Allow enter key to trigger preloadorders form
    $(document).keypress(function(e) {       
      if(e.which == 13) {   
          e.preventDefault();   
                if($(".trigger").is(".ok")) 
                   $("#PreLoadOrders").trigger("click");
                else
                    return;
      }
    });
});

As you can see this submit performs processing which is why I have this jQuery for this modal. Now let's say I have another modal within this webpage but no processing is performed and since one modal is open at a time I put another $(document).ready() in a global php/js script that all pages get and I give the modal's close button a class called: ".modal-close":

HTML:

<div class="modal-footer caption">
                <button type="submit" class="modal-close btn default" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">Close</button>
            </div>

jQuery (include global.inc):

  $(document).ready(function(){
         // Allow enter key to trigger a particular button anywhere on page
        $(document).keypress(function(e) {
                if(e.which == 13) {
                   if($(".modal").is(":visible")){   
                        $(".modal:visible").find(".modal-close").trigger('click');
                    }
                }
         });
    });