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Javascript for Bootstrap

Bring Bootstrap's components to life—now with 12 custom jQuery plugins.

jQuery plugins A dozen Bootstrap plugins to get you started

Heads up! All javascript plugins require the latest version of jQuery.

Modals bootstrap-modal.js

About modals

A streamlined, but flexible, take on the traditional javascript modal plugin with only the minimum required functionality and smart defaults.

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Static example

Below is a statically rendered modal.

×

Modal header

One fine body…

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Live demo

Toggle a modal via javascript by clicking the button below. It will slide down and fade in from the top of the page.

Launch demo modal

Using bootstrap-modal

Call the modal via javascript:

$('#myModal').modal(options)

Options

Name type default description
backdrop boolean true Includes a modal-backdrop element
keyboard boolean true Closes the modal when escape key is pressed

Markup

You can activate modals on your page easily without having to write a single line of javascript. Just set data-toggle="modal" on a controller element with a data-target="#foo" or href="#foo" which corresponds to a modal element id, and when clicked, it will launch your modal.

Also, to add options to your modal instance, just include them as additional data attributes on either the control element or the modal markup itself.

<a class="btn" data-toggle="modal" href="#myModal" >Launch Modal</a>

<div class="modal">
  <div class="modal-header">
    <a class="close" data-dismiss="modal">×</a>
    <h3>Modal header</h3>
  </div>
  <div class="modal-body">
    <p>One fine body…</p>
  </div>
  <div class="modal-footer">
    <a href="#" class="btn btn-primary">Save changes</a>
    <a href="#" class="btn">Close</a>
  </div>
</div>
Heads up! If you want your modal to animate in and out, just add a .fade class to the .modal element (refer to the demo to see this in action) and include bootstrap-transition.js.

Methods

.modal(options)

Activates your content as a modal. Accepts an optional options object.

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

.modal('toggle')

Manually toggles a modal.

$('#myModal').modal('toggle')

.modal('show')

Manually opens a modal.

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

.modal('hide')

Manually hides a modal.

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

Events

Bootstrap's modal class exposes a few events for hooking into modal functionality.

Event Description
show This event fires immediately when the show instance method is called.
shown This event is fired when the modal has been made visible to the user (will wait for css transitions to complete).
hide This event is fired immediately when the hide instance method has been called.
hidden This event is fired when the modal has finished being hidden from the user (will wait for css transitions to complete). 
$('#myModal').on('hidden', function () {
  // do something…
})

ScrollSpy bootstrap-scrollspy.js

The ScrollSpy plugin is for automatically updating nav targets based on scroll position.

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Example navbar with scrollspy

Scroll the area below and watch the navigation update. The dropdown sub items will be highlighted as well. Try it!

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Using bootstrap-scrollspy.js

Call the scrollspy via javascript:

$('#navbar').scrollspy()

Markup

To easily add scrollspy behavior to your topbar navigation, just add data-spy="scroll" to the element you want to spy on (most typically this would be the body).

<body data-spy="scroll" >...</body>
Heads up! Navbar links must have resolvable id targets. For example, a <a href="#home">home</a> must correspond to something in the dom like <div id="home"></div>.

Options

Name type default description
offset number 10 Pixels to offset from top when calculating position of scroll.

Togglable tabs bootstrap-tab.js

This plugin adds quick, dynamic tab and pill functionality for transitioning through local content.

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Example tabs

Click the tabs below to toggle between hidden panes, even via dropdown menus.

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Using bootstrap-tab.js

Enable tabbable tabs via javascript:

$('#myTab').tab('show')

Markup

You can activate a tab or pill navigation without writing any javascript by simply specifying data-toggle="tab" or data-toggle="pill" on an element.

<ul class="tabs">
  <li><a href="#home" data-toggle="tab">Home</a></li>
  <li><a href="#profile" data-toggle="tab">Profile</a></li>
  <li><a href="#messages" data-toggle="tab">Messages</a></li>
  <li><a href="#ettings" data-toggle="tab">Settings</a></li>
</ul>

Methods

$().tab

Activates a tab element and content container. Tab should have either a `data-target` or an `href` targeting a container node in the dom. 

<ul class="tabs">
  <li class="active"><a href="#home">Home</a></li>
  <li><a href="#profile">Profile</a></li>
  <li><a href="#messages">Messages</a></li>
  <li><a href="#settings">Settings</a></li>
</ul>

<div class="tab-content">
  <div class="tab-pane active" id="home">...</div>
  <div class="tab-pane" id="profile">...</div>
  <div class="tab-pane" id="messages">...</div>
  <div class="tab-pane" id="settings">...</div>
</div>

<script>
  $(function () {
    $('.tabs a:last').tab('show')
  })
</script>

Events

Event Description
show This event fires on tab show, but before the new tab has been shown. Use event.target and event.relatedTarget to target the active tab and the previous active tab (if available) respectively.
shown This event fires on tab show after a tab has been shown. Use event.target and event.relatedTarget to target the active tab and the previous active tab (if available) respectively. 
$('a[data-toggle="tab"]').on('shown', function (e) {
  e.target // activated tab
  e.relatedTarget // previous tab
})

Tooltips bootstrap-tooltip.js

About Tooltips

Inspired by the excellent jQuery.tipsy plugin written by Jason Frame; Tooltips are an updated version, which don't rely on images, uss css3 for animations, and data-attributes for local title storage.

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Example use of Tooltips

Hover over the links below to see tooltips:

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Using bootstrap-tooltip.js

Trigger the tooltip via javascript:

$('#example').tooltip(options)

Options

Name type default description
animation boolean true apply a css fade transition to the tooltip
placement string 'top' how to position the tooltip - top | bottom | left | right
selector string false If a selector is provided, tooltip objects will be delegated to the specified targets.
title string | function '' default title value if `title` tag isn't present
trigger string 'hover' how tooltip is triggered - hover | focus | manual
delay number | object 0

delay showing and hiding the tooltip (ms)

If a number is supplied, delay is applied to both hide/show

Object structure is: delay: { show: 500, hide: 100 }
Heads up! Options for individual tooltips can alternatively be specified through the use of data attributes.

Markup

For performance reasons, the Tooltip and Popover data-apis are opt in. If you would like to use them just specify a selector option.

Methods

$().tooltip(options)

Attaches a tooltip handler to an element collection.

.tooltip('show')

Reveals an elements tooltip.

$('#element').tooltip('show')

.tooltip('hide')

Hides an elements tooltip.

$('#element').tooltip('hide')

.tooltip('toggle')

Toggles an elements tooltip.

$('#element').tooltip('toggle')

Popovers bootstrap-popover.js

About popovers

Add small overlays of content, like those on the iPad, to any element for housing secondary information.

* Requires Tooltip to be included

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Example hover popover

Hover over the button to trigger the popover.

hover for popover

Using bootstrap-popover.js

Enable popovers via javascript:

$('#example').popover(options)

Options

Name type default description
animation boolean true apply a css fade transition to the tooltip
placement string 'right' how to position the popover - top | bottom | left | right
selector string false if a selector is provided, tooltip objects will be delegated to the specified targets
trigger string 'hover' how tooltip is triggered - hover | focus | manual
title string | function '' default title value if `title` attribute isn't present
content string | function '' default content value if `data-content` attribute isn't present
delay number | object 0

delay showing and hiding the popover (ms)

If a number is supplied, delay is applied to both hide/show

Object structure is: delay: { show: 500, hide: 100 }
Heads up! Options for individual popovers can alternatively be specified through the use of data attributes.

Markup

For performance reasons, the Tooltip and Popover data-apis are opt in. If you would like to use them just specify a the selector option.

Methods

$().popover(options)

Initializes popovers for an element collection.

.popover('show')

Reveals an elements popover.

$('#element').popover('show')

.popover('hide')

Hides an elements popover.

$('#element').popover('hide')

.popover('toggle')

Toggles an elements popover.

$('#element').popover('toggle')

Alert messages bootstrap-alert.js

About alerts

The alert plugin is a tiny class for adding close functionality to alerts.

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Example alerts

The alerts plugin works on regular alert messages, and block messages.

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Using bootstrap-alerts.js

Enable dismissal of an alert via javascript:

$(".alert-message").alert()

Markup

Just add data-dismiss="alert" to your close button to automatically give an alert close functionality.

<a class="close" data-dismiss="alert" href="#">&times;</a>

Methods

$().alert()

Wraps all alerts with close functionality. To have your alerts animate out when closed, make sure they have the .fade and .in class already applied to them.

.alert('close')

Closes an alert.

$(".alert-message").alert('close')

Events

Bootstrap's alert class exposes a few events for hooking into alert functionality.

Event Description
close This event fires immediately when the close instance method is called.
closed This event is fired when the alert has been closed (will wait for css transitions to complete). 
$('#my-alert').bind('closed', function () {
  // do something…
})

Buttons bootstrap-button.js

About

Do more with buttons. Control button states or create groups of buttons for more components like toolbars.

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Example uses

Use the buttons plugin for states and toggles.

Stateful
Single toggle
Checkbox
Radio

Using bootstrap-button.js

Enable buttons via javascript:

$('.tabs').button()

Markup

Data attributes are integral to the button plugin. Check out the example code below for the various markup types.

<!-- Add data-toggle="button" to activate toggling on a single button -->
<button class="btn" data-toggle="button">Single Toggle</button>

<!-- Add data-toggle="buttons-checkbox" for checkbox style toggling on btn-group -->
<div class="btn-group" data-toggle="buttons-checkbox">
  <button class="btn">Left</button>
  <button class="btn">Middle</button>
  <button class="btn">Right</button>
</div>

<!-- Add data-toggle="buttons-radio" for radio style toggling on btn-group -->
<div class="btn-group" data-toggle="buttons-radio">
  <button class="btn">Left</button>
  <button class="btn">Middle</button>
  <button class="btn">Right</button>
</div>

Methods

$().button('toggle')

Toggles push state. Gives btn the look that it's been activated.

Heads up! You can enable auto toggling of a button by using the data-toggle attribute. 
<button class="btn" data-toggle="button" >…</button>

$().button('loading')

Sets button state to loading - disables button and swaps text to loading text. Loading text should be defined on the button element using the data attribute data-loading-text. 

<button class="btn" data-loading-text="loading stuff..." >...</button>
Heads up! Firefox persists the disabled state across page loads. A workaround for this is to use autocomplete="off".

$().button('reset')

Resets button state - swaps text to original text.

$().button(string)

Resets button state - swaps text to any data defined text state.

<button class="btn" data-complete-text="finished!" >...</button>
<script>
  $('.btn').button('complete')
</script>

Collapse bootstrap-collapse.js

About

Get base styles and flexible support for collapsible components like accordions and navigation.

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Example accordion

Using the collapse plugin, we built a simple accordion style widget:

Collapsible Group Item #1
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Collapsible Group Item #2
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Collapsible Group Item #3
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Using bootstrap-collapse.js

Enable via javascript:

$(".collapse").collapse()

Options

Name type default description
parent selector false If selector then all collapsible elements under the specified parent will be closed when this collasabile item is shown. (similar to traditional accordion behavior)
toggle boolean true Toggles the collapsible element on invocation

Markup

Just add data-toggle="collapse" and a data-target to element to automatically assign control of a collapsible element. The data-target attribute accepts a css selector to apply the collapse to. Be sure to add the class collapse to the collapsible element. If you'd like it to default open, add the additional class in.

<button class="btn btn-danger" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#demo">
  simple collapsible
</button>

<div id="demo" class="collapse in"> … </div>
Heads up! To add accordion-like group management to a collapsible control, add the data attribute data-parent="#selector". Refer to the demo to see this in action.

Methods

.collapse(options)

Activates your content as a collapsible element. Accepts an optional options object. 

$('#myCollapsible').collapse({
  toggle: false
})

.collapse('toggle')

Toggles a collapsible element to shown or hidden.

.collapse('show')

Shows a collapsible element.

.collapse('hide')

Hides a collapsible element.

Events

Bootstrap's collapse class exposes a few events for hooking into collapse functionality.

Event Description
show This event fires immediately when the show instance method is called.
shown This event is fired when a collapse element has been made visible to the user (will wait for css transitions to complete).
hide This event is fired immediately when the hide method has been called.
hidden This event is fired when a collapse element has been hidden from the user (will wait for css transitions to complete). 
$('#myCollapsible').on('hidden', function () {
  // do something…
})

Typeahead bootstrap-typeahead.js

About

A basic, easily extended plugin for quickly creating elegant typeaheads with any form text input.

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Example

Start typing in the field below to show the typeahead results.

Using bootstrap-typeahead.js

Call the typeahead via javascript:

$('.typeahead').typeahead()

Options

Name type default description
source array [ ] The data source to query against.
items number 8 The max number of items to display in the dropdown.
matcher function case insensitive The method used to determine if a query matches an item. Accepts a single argument, the item against which to test the query. Access the current query with this.query. Return a boolean true if query is a match.
sorter function exact match,
case sensitive,
case insensitive		 Method used to sort autocomplete results. Accepts a single argument items and has the scope of the typeahead instance. Reference the current query with this.query.
highlighter function highlights all default matches Method used to highlight autocomplete results. Accepts a single argument item and has the scope of the typeahead instance. Should return html.

Markup

Add data attributes to register an element with typeahead functionality.

<input type="text" data-provide="typeahead">

Methods

.typeahead(options)

Initializes an input with a typahead.

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