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

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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.

Best Answer

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

Bootstrap 3 & 4

$('#myModal').on('hidden.bs.modal', function () {
    // do something…
});

Bootstrap 3: getbootstrap.com/javascript/#modals-events

Bootstrap 4: getbootstrap.com/docs/4.1/components/modal/#events

Bootstrap 2.3.2

$('#myModal').on('hidden', function () {
    // do something…
});

See getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/javascript.html#modals → Events

Css – How to make Twitter Bootstrap menu dropdown on hover rather than click

To get the menu to automatically drop on hover then this can achieved using basic CSS. You need to work out the selector to the hidden menu option and then set it to display as block when the appropriate li tag is hovered over. Taking the example from the twitter bootstrap page, the selector would be as follows:

ul.nav li.dropdown:hover > ul.dropdown-menu {
    display: block;    
}

However, if you are using Bootstrap's responsive features, you will not want this functionality on a collapsed navbar (on smaller screens). To avoid this, wrap the code above in a media query:

@media (min-width: 979px) {
  ul.nav li.dropdown:hover > ul.dropdown-menu {
    display: block;
  }
}

To hide the arrow (caret) this is done in different ways depending on whether you are using Twitter Bootstrap version 2 and lower or version 3:

Bootstrap 3

To remove the caret in version 3 you just need to remove the HTML <b class="caret"></b> from the .dropdown-toggle anchor element:

<a class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#">
    Dropdown
    <b class="caret"></b>    <-- remove this line
</a>

Bootstrap 2 & lower

To remove the caret in version 2 you need a little more insight into CSS and I suggest looking at how the :after pseudo element works in more detail. To get you started on your way to understanding, to target and remove the arrows in the twitter bootstrap example, you would use the following CSS selector and code:

a.menu:after, .dropdown-toggle:after {
    content: none;
}

It will work in your favour if you look further into how these work and not just use the answers that I have given you.

Thanks to @CocaAkat for pointing out that we were missing the ">" child combinator to prevent sub menus being shown on the parent hover

Best Answer

Related Solutions

Jquery – Bind a function to Twitter Bootstrap Modal Close

Bootstrap 3 & 4

Bootstrap 2.3.2

Css – How to make Twitter Bootstrap menu dropdown on hover rather than click

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