[javascript] Passing data to a bootstrap modal

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#modals ), and pass this ID to the modal. I searched on google, but I couldn't find anything that could help me.

This is the code:

<a data-toggle="modal" data-id="@book.Id" title="Add this item" class="open-AddBookDialog"></a>

Which should open:

<div class="modal hide" id="addBookDialog">
    <div class="modal-body">
        <input type="hidden" name="bookId" id="bookId" value=""/>
    </div>
</div>

With this piece of code:

$(document).ready(function () {
    $(".open-AddBookDialog").click(function () {
        $('#bookId').val($(this).data('id'));
        $('#addBookDialog').modal('show');
    });
});

However, when I click the hyperlink, nothing happens. When I give the hyperlink <a href="#addBookDialog" ...>, the modal opens just fine, but it does't contain any data.

I followed this example: How to pass values arguments to modal.show() function in Bootstrap

(and I also tried this: How to set the input value in a modal dialogue?)

If you are on bootstrap 3+, this can be shortened a bit further if using Jquery.

HTML

<a href="#" data-target="#my_modal" data-toggle="modal" class="identifyingClass" data-id="my_id_value">Open Modal</a>

<div class="modal fade" id="my_modal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="my_modalLabel">
<div class="modal-dialog" role="dialog">
    <div class="modal-content">
        <div class="modal-header">
            <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"><span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span></button>
            <h4 class="modal-title" id="myModalLabel">Modal Title</h4>
        </div>
        <div class="modal-body">
            Modal Body
            <input type="hidden" name="hiddenValue" id="hiddenValue" value="" />
        </div>
        <div class="modal-footer">
            <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">No</button>
            <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Yes</button>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

JQUERY

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function () {
        $(".identifyingClass").click(function () {
            var my_id_value = $(this).data('id');
            $(".modal-body #hiddenValue").val(my_id_value);
        })
    });
</script>

Here's how I implemented it working from @mg1075's code. I wanted a bit more generic code so as not to have to assign classes to the modal trigger links/buttons:

Tested in Twitter Bootstrap 3.0.3.

HTML

<a href="#" data-target="#my_modal" data-toggle="modal" data-id="my_id_value">Open Modal</a>

JAVASCRIPT

$(document).ready(function() {

  $('a[data-toggle=modal], button[data-toggle=modal]').click(function () {

    var data_id = '';

    if (typeof $(this).data('id') !== 'undefined') {

      data_id = $(this).data('id');
    }

    $('#my_element_id').val(data_id);
  })
});

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
})

For updating an href value, for example, I would do something like:

<a href="#myModal" data-toggle="modal" data-url="http://example.com">Show modal</a>

$('#myModal').on('show.bs.modal', function (e) {
    var url = $(e.relatedTarget).data('url');
    $(e.currentTarget).find('.any-class').attr("href", "url");
})

Found this works for me:

In the link:

<button type="button" class="btn btn-success" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#message<?php echo $row['id'];?>">Message</button>

In the modal:

<div id="message<?php echo $row['id'];?>" class="modal fade" role="dialog">
  <div class="modal-dialog">

    <!-- Modal content-->
    <div class="modal-content">
      <div class="modal-header">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal">&times;</button>
        <h4 class="modal-title">Modal Header</h4>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-body">
        <p>Some text in the modal.</p>
        <?php echo $row['id'];?>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-footer">
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
      </div>
    </div>

  </div>
</div>

Here is a cleaner way to do it if you are using Bootstrap 3.2.0.

Link HTML

<a href="#my_modal" data-toggle="modal" data-book-id="my_id_value">Open Modal</a>

Modal JavaScript

//triggered when modal is about to be shown
$('#my_modal').on('show.bs.modal', function(e) {

    //get data-id attribute of the clicked element
    var bookId = $(e.relatedTarget).data('book-id');

    //populate the textbox
    $(e.currentTarget).find('input[name="bookId"]').val(bookId);
});

http://jsfiddle.net/k7FC2/

This is how you can send the id_data to a modal :

<input
    href="#"
    data-some-id="uid0123456789"
    data-toggle="modal"
    data-target="#my_modal"
    value="SHOW MODAL"
    type="submit"
    class="btn modal-btn"/>

<div class="col-md-5">
  <div class="modal fade" id="my_modal">
   <div class="modal-body modal-content">
     <h2 name="hiddenValue" id="hiddenValue" />
   </div>
   <div class="modal-footer" />
</div>

And the javascript :

    $(function () {
     $(".modal-btn").click(function (){
       var data_var = $(this).data('some-id');
       $(".modal-body h2").text(data_var);
     })
    });

Bootstrap 4.3 - use code from below snippet - more here

$('#exampleModal').on('show.bs.modal', function (event) {_x000D_
  let bookId = $(event.relatedTarget).data('bookid') _x000D_
  $(this).find('.modal-body input').val(bookId)_x000D_
})

a.btn.btn-primary.open-AddBookDialog {color: white }

<!-- Initialize Bootstrap 4 -->_x000D_
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-ggOyR0iXCbMQv3Xipma34MD+dH/1fQ784/j6cY/iJTQUOhcWr7x9JvoRxT2MZw1T" crossorigin="anonymous">_x000D_
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-q8i/X+965DzO0rT7abK41JStQIAqVgRVzpbzo5smXKp4YfRvH+8abtTE1Pi6jizo" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>_x000D_
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.7/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-UO2eT0CpHqdSJQ6hJty5KVphtPhzWj9WO1clHTMGa3JDZwrnQq4sF86dIHNDz0W1" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>_x000D_
<script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-JjSmVgyd0p3pXB1rRibZUAYoIIy6OrQ6VrjIEaFf/nJGzIxFDsf4x0xIM+B07jRM" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>_x000D_
_x000D_
<!-- BUTTON -->_x000D_
_x000D_
<a _x000D_
  class="btn btn-primary open-AddBookDialog" _x000D_
  data-toggle="modal" _x000D_
  data-target="#exampleModal" _x000D_
  data-bookid="@book.Id" _x000D_
  title="Add this item"_x000D_
>Open</a>_x000D_
_x000D_
<!-- MODAL -->_x000D_
_x000D_
<div class="modal fade" id="exampleModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog">_x000D_
  <div class="modal-dialog" role="document">_x000D_
    <div class="modal-content">_x000D_
    _x000D_
      <div class="modal-body">_x000D_
        <input type="hidden" name="bookId" id="bookId" value=""/>_x000D_
        <input type="text" class="form-control" id="recipient-name">    _x000D_
      </div>_x000D_
      _x000D_
      <div class="modal-footer">_x000D_
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>_x000D_
      </div>_x000D_
_x000D_
    </div>_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
</div>

This is so easy with jquery:

If below is your anchor link:

<a data-toggle="modal" data-id="@book.Id" title="Add this item" class="open-AddBookDialog"></a>

In the show event of your modal you can access to the anchor tag like below

//triggered when modal is shown
$('#modal_id').on('shown.bs.modal', function(event) {

    // The reference tag is your anchor tag here
    var reference_tag = $(event.relatedTarget); 
    var id = reference_tag.data('id')
    // ...
    // ...
})

You can try simpleBootstrapDialog. Here you can pass title, message, callback options for cancel and submit etc...

To use this plugin include simpleBootstrapDialog.js file like below

<script type="text/javascript" src="/simpleDialog.js"></script>

Basic Usage

<script type="text/javascript>
$.simpleDialog();
</script>

Custom Title and description

$.simpleDialog({
  title:"Alert Dialog",
  message:"Alert Message"
});

With Callback

<script type="text/javascript>
$.simpleDialog({
    onSuccess:function(){
        alert("You confirmed");
    },
    onCancel:function(){
        alert("You cancelled");
    }
});
</script>

Try with this

$(function(){
 //when click a button
  $("#miButton").click(function(){
    $(".dynamic-field").remove();
    //pass the data in the modal body adding html elements
    $('#myModal .modal-body').html('<input type="hidden" name="name" value="your value" class="dynamic-field">') ;
    //open the modal
    $('#myModal').modal('show') 
  })
})

Your code would have worked with correct modal html structure.

$(function(){_x000D_
  $(".open-AddBookDialog").click(function(){_x000D_
     $('#bookId').val($(this).data('id'));_x000D_
    $("#addBookDialog").modal("show");_x000D_
  });_x000D_
});

<html>_x000D_
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
<a data-id="@book.Id" title="Add this item" class="open-AddBookDialog">Open Modal</a>_x000D_
_x000D_
<div id="addBookDialog" class="modal fade" tabindex="-1" role="dialog">_x000D_
  <div class="modal-dialog" role="document">_x000D_
    <div class="modal-content">_x000D_
      <div class="modal-body">_x000D_
       <input type="hidden" name="bookId" id="bookId" value=""/>_x000D_
      </div>_x000D_
    _x000D_
    </div><!-- /.modal-content -->_x000D_
  </div><!-- /.modal-dialog -->_x000D_
</div><!-- /.modal -->_x000D_
</html>

I find this approach useful:

Create click event:

$( button ).on('click', function(e) {
    let id = e.node.data.id;

    $('#myModal').modal('show', {id: id});
});

Create show.bs.modal event:

$('#myModal').on('show.bs.modal', function (e) {

     // access parsed information through relatedTarget
     console.log(e.relatedTarget.id);

});

Extra:

Make your logic inside show.bs.modal to check whether the properties are parsed, like for instance as this: id: ( e.relatedTarget.hasOwnProperty( 'id' ) ? e.relatedTarget.id : null )