Passing data to a bootstrap modal

Question

I\'ve got a couple of hyperlinks that each have an ID attached. When I click on this link, I want to open a modal ( http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#modal

Answer 1

Bootstrap 4.0 gives an option to modify modal data using jquery: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/components/modal/#varying-modal-content

Here is the script tag on the docs :

$('#exampleModal').on('show.bs.modal', function (event) {
  var button = $(event.relatedTarget) // Button that triggered the modal
  var recipient = button.data('whatever') // Extract info from data-* attributes
  // If necessary, you could initiate an AJAX request here (and then do the updating in a callback).
  // Update the modal's content. We'll use jQuery here, but you could use a data binding library or other methods instead.
  var modal = $(this)
  modal.find('.modal-title').text('New message to ' + recipient)
  modal.find('.modal-body input').val(recipient)
})

It works for the most part. Only call to modal was not working. Here is a modification on the script that works for me:

$(document).on('show.bs.modal', '#exampleModal',function(event){
... // same as in above script
})