[jquery-ui] Can I use Twitter Bootstrap and jQuery UI at the same time?

I am using Twitter Bootstrap and I want to use an "auto-suggest" which is not available in Bootstrap, whereas jQuery UI has its own methods for auto-suggest.

Can I use both? Will it overload the bandwidth?

Yes you can use both. js bootstrap from twitter is a collection of jquery plugins. There shohuldn't be any conflict with jQuery UI.

Regarding bandwidth overload, it really depends on how you handle the requests to load all of your js files. if you really dont want to make multiple requests to the server to request for each file, just append them together and minimize. Or you probably can get rid of some js bootstrap plugins you dont need. it is very modular.

just to update this, bootstrap v2 no longer conflicts with jquery ui

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/171

Edit: as @Freshblood there are a few things that still conflict. However, as originally posted Twitter suggests that they are working on this and it largely works, specially compared to v1.

Because this is the top result on google on jquery ui and bootstrap.js I decided to add this as community wiki.

I am using:

• Bootstrap v3.2.0
• jquery-2.1.0
• jquery-ui-1.10.3

and somehow when I include bootstrap.js it disables the dropdown of the jquery ui autocomplete.

my three workarounds:

• exclude bootstrap.js
• or more to typeahead lib
• move from bootstrap.js to bootstrap.min.js (strange, but worked for me)

The data-role="none" is the key to make them work together. You can apply to the elements you want bootstrap to touch but jquery mobile to ignore. like this input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search" data-role="none"

For future reference (since this is google's top answer ATM), to prevent jQuery UI from overriding bootstrap's or your custom style, you need to create a custom download and select the no-theme theme. That will only include jQuery UI's resets, and not overload bootstrap's style for various elements.

While we're at it, some jQuery UI components (such as datepicker) have a native bootstrap implementation. The native bootstrap implementations will use the bootstrap css classes, attributes and layouts, so should have a better integration with the rest of the framework.

If don't store it locally and use the link that they provide you might have an improved performance.The client might have the scripts already cached in some cases. As for the case of jQueryUI i would recommend not loading it until necessary. They are both minimized, but you can fire up the console and look at the network tab and see how long it takes for it to load, once it is initially downloaded it will be cached so you shouldn't worry afterwards.My conclusion would be yes use them both but use a CDN

If you're running into javascript namespace collisions, you can use Bootstrap's noConflict() function make it cede functionality to jQuery UI.

I have site developed using jquery ui, I just tried to plug in bootstrap for future development and styling but it breaks virtually everything.

So No they are not compatible.

Bootstrap still doesnt work with Jquery UI, for example the modal.Bootstrap has nice style but as a framework with Twitter behind isnt that good.

In my limited experience I am coming across issues as well. It appears that JQuery elements (such as buttons) can be styled using bootstrap CSS. However, I am experiencing issues having created a JQuery UI tab and wanting to lock a bootstrap only input (using the input-append class) to the bottom of each tab, only the first sits correctly. So, JQuery tabs + Bootstrap buttons = probably not.

Kendo UI has a nice bootstrap theme here and a set of web UI comparable to jquery-UI. They also have an open source version that works nicely with the theme.

Although this question specifically mentions jQuery-UI autosuggest feature, the question title is more general: does bootstrap 3 work with jQuery UI? I was having trouble with the jQUI datepicker (pop-up calendar) feature. I solved the datepicker problem and hope the solution will help with other jQUI/BS issues.

I had a difficult time today getting the latest jQueryUI (ver 1.12.1) datepicker to work with bootstrap 3.3.7. What was happening is that the calendar would display but it would not close.

Turned out to be a version problem with jQUI and BS. I was using the latest version of Bootstrap, and found that I had to downgrade to these versions of jQUI and jQuery:

jQueryUI - 1.9.2 (tested - works)
jQuery - 1.9.1 or 2.1.4 (tested - both work. Other vers may work, but these work.)
Bootstrap 3.3.7 (tested - works)

Because I wanted to use a custom theme, I also built a custom download of jQUI (removed a few things like all the interactions, dialog, progressbar and a few effects I don't use) -- and made sure to select "Cupertino" at the bottom as my theme.

I installed them thus:

<head>
...etc...
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/font-awesome.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/cupertino/jquery-ui-1.9.2.custom.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/bootstrap-3.3.7.min.css">

<!-- <script src="js/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script> -->
<script src="js/jquery-2.1.4.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/jquery-ui-1.9.2.custom.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/bootstrap-3.3.7.min.js"></script>
...etc...
</head>

For those interested, the CSS folder looks like this:

[css]
  - bootstrap-3.3.7.min.css
  - font-awesome.min.css
  - style.css
  - [cupertino]
      - jquery-ui-1.9.2.custom.min.css
      [images]
          - ui-bg_diagonals-thick_90_eeeeee_40x40.png
          - ui-bg_glass_100_e4f1fb_1x400.png
          - ui-bg_glass_50_3baae3_1x400.png
          - ui-bg_glass_80_d7ebf9_1x400.png
          - ui-bg_highlight-hard_100_f2f5f7_1x100.png
          - etc (8 more files that were in the downloaded jQUI zip file)