prevent bootstrap modal window from closing on form submission

Question

Hi I\'m using Bootstrap for the first time and I can\'t get my modal form to stay open on clicking the submit button. I\'ve searched SO but all related questions deal with slig

Answer 1

This is how I did in my program, hope it helps.

This is the button which triggers the modal. Here I have disable the keyboard and mouse click outside the modal.

<button type="button" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#modalDivId"
                data-backdrop="static" data-keyboard="false">

This is the modal div, with a form and a submit button. Replace ... with your modal content.

<div class="modal fade" id="modalDivId" role="dialog">
 <form>
   ...
  <button type="submit" onClick="myFunction()" class="btn btn-success">
     Submit
  </button>
 </form>
</div>

Finally the function which triggers when you click submit button. Here event.preventDefault(); will prevent the default action of form submit, so that the modal will remain.

function myFunction() {
    $("form").on("submit", function (event) {
        event.preventDefault();
        $.ajax({
            url: "yoururl",
            type: "POST",
            data: yourData,
            success: function (result) {
                console.log(result)
            }
        });
    })
}

Answer 2

I ran into the similar problem where I use modal as a form so I cannot initially set data-backdrop="static" data-keyboard="false" because I want the user to be able to close it as long as he has not submitted the form. Once he has submitted the form, I want to prevent him from closing the form modal. Here is how I can get around.

$('#modalForm').on('submit', function() {
  $(#modal).on('hide.bs.modal', function ( e ) {
    e.preventDefault();
  }) 
});

Answer 3

If you want to add multiple data and you want modal to stay open use

• <button type="button"></button>

and If you want to close the modal after submitting data you must use

• <button type="submit"></button>

Answer 4

Use this to prevent bootstrap modal window from closing on form submission

$( "form" ).submit(function( event ) {
  event.preventDefault();
});

Answer 5

Remove the following:

data-dismiss = "modal"

From the button that should not close the dialog. After that, you can close the dialog by using $( "#TheDialogID" ).modal( "hide" ). Example:

<!--<SimpleModalBox>-->
<div class="modal fade" id="SimpleModalBox" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="SimpleModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
  <!--<modal-dialog>-->
  <div class = "modal-dialog">

    <!--<modal-content>-->
    <div class = "modal-content">

      <div class = "modal-header">
        <button type = "button" class = "close" data-dismiss = "modal">
          <span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span>
        </button>
        <h4 class = "modal-title" id = "SimpleModalLabel">Title for a simple modal</h4>
      </div>

      <div id="TheBodyContent" class = "modal-body">
        Put your content here
      </div>

      <div class = "modal-footer">
        <button type = "button" class = "btn btn-default" data-dismiss = "modal">Yes</button>
        <button type = "button" class = "btn btn-default" onclick="doSomethingBeforeClosing()">Don't close</button>
        <button type = "button" class = "btn btn-default" data-dismiss = "modal">Cancel</button>
      </div>

    </div>
    <!--<modal-content>-->

  </div>
  <!--/modal-dialog>-->
</div>
<!--</SimpleModalBox>-->

Javascript code:

//#region Dialogs
function showSimpleDialog() {
  $( "#SimpleModalBox" ).modal();
}

function doSomethingBeforeClosing() {
  //Do something. For example, display a result:
  $( "#TheBodyContent" ).text( "Operation completed successfully" );

  //Close dialog in 3 seconds:
  setTimeout( function() { $( "#SimpleModalBox" ).modal( "hide" ) }, 3000 );
}
//#endregion Dialogs

Answer 6

look at => http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/javascript.html#modals

use

data-backdrop="static"

or

$("#yourModal").modal({"backdrop": "static"});

Edit1 :

on your link opening your modal ==>

<a href="#" onclick="$('#yourModal').modal({'backdrop': 'static'});" class="btn btn-primary">yourModal</a>

Edit2 :

http://jsfiddle.net/BVmUL/39/