Twitter Bootstrap 2 modal form dialogs

Answer 1

To get the submit button work put it inside the form.

    

        

            ×
            
A Modal Form
        
        

            
        
        

            Cancel
            
        
    

However, this adds an unexpected margin at the bottom of the modal. Bootstrap 2.0.2 introduced the modal-form class to fix this or you can fix it yourself with a style definition like:

.modal > form {
    margin-bottom: 0;
}

For linking to another page when closing the modal I go along with TheShellfishMeme

As for the × that is supposed to link to the homepage, why not just remove the data-dismiss='modal' and make it act like a normal link using a standard href='home.html'.