--- layout: default title: JavaScript plugins slug: js lead: "Bring Bootstrap's components to life with over a dozen custom jQuery plugins. Easily include them all, or one by one." ---

Individual or compiled

Plugins can be included individually (using bootstrap-*.js original files, or all at once (using bootstrap.js or the minified bootstrap.min.js.

Do not attempt to include both.

Both bootstrap.js and bootstrap.min.js contain all plugins in a single file.

Plugin dependencies

Some plugins and CSS components depend on other plugins. If you include plugins individually, make sure to check for these dependencies in the docs.

Data attributes

You can use all Bootstrap plugins purely through the markup API without writing a single line of JavaScript. This is Bootstrap's first class API and should be your first consideration when using a plugin.

That said, in some situations it may be desirable to turn this functionality off. Therefore, we also provide the ability to disable the data attribute API by unbinding all events on the body namespaced with data-api. This looks like this: {% highlight js %} $('body').off('.data-api') {% endhighlight %}

Alternatively, to target a specific plugin, just include the plugin's name as a namespace along with the data-api namespace like this:

{% highlight js %} $('body').off('.alert.data-api') {% endhighlight %}

Programmatic API

We also believe you should be able to use all Bootstrap plugins purely through the JavaScript API. All public APIs are single, chainable methods, and return the collection acted upon.

{% highlight js %} $(".btn.danger").button("toggle").addClass("fat") {% endhighlight %}

All methods should accept an optional options object, a string which targets a particular method, or nothing (which initiates a plugin with default behavior):

{% highlight js %} $("#myModal").modal() // initialized with defaults $("#myModal").modal({ keyboard: false }) // initialized with no keyboard $("#myModal").modal('show') // initializes and invokes show immediately

{% endhighlight %}

Each plugin also exposes its raw constructor on a Constructor property: $.fn.popover.Constructor. If you'd like to get a particular plugin instance, retrieve it directly from an element: $('[rel=popover]').data('popover').

No conflict

Sometimes it is necessary to use Bootstrap plugins with other UI frameworks. In these circumstances, namespace collisions can occasionally occur. If this happens, you may call .noConflict on the plugin you wish to revert the value of.

{% highlight js %} var bootstrapButton = $.fn.button.noConflict() // return $.fn.button to previously assigned value $.fn.bootstrapBtn = bootstrapButton // give $().bootstrapBtn the bootstrap functionality {% endhighlight %}

Events

Bootstrap provides custom events for most plugin's unique actions. Generally, these come in an infinitive and past participle form - where the infinitive (ex. show) is triggered at the start of an event, and its past participle form (ex. shown) is trigger on the completion of an action.

As of 3.0.0, all bootstrap events are namespaced.

All infinitive events provide preventDefault functionality. This provides the ability to stop the execution of an action before it starts.

{% highlight js %} $('#myModal').on('show.bs.modal', function (e) { if (!data) return e.preventDefault() // stops modal from being shown }) {% endhighlight %}

Third-party libraries

Bootstrap does not officially support third-party JavaScript libraries like Prototype or jQuery UI. Despite .noConflict and namespaced events, there may be compatibility problems that you need to fix on your own. Ask on the mailing list if you need help.

About transitions

For simple transition effects, include transition.js once alongside the other JS files. If you're using the compiled (or minified) bootstrap.js, there is no need to include this—it's already there.

Use cases

A few examples of the transition plugin:

Examples

Modals are streamlined, but flexible, dialog prompts with the minimum required functionality and smart defaults.

Static example

A rendered modal with header, body, and set of actions in the footer.

{% highlight html %} {% endhighlight %}

Live demo

Toggle a modal via JavaScript by clicking the button below. It will slide down and fade in from the top of the page.

Launch demo modal
{% highlight html %} Launch demo modal {% endhighlight %}

Usage

Via data attributes

Activate a modal without writing JavaScript. Set data-toggle="modal" on a controller element, like a button, along with a data-target="#foo" or href="#foo" to target a specific modal to toggle.

{% highlight html %} {% endhighlight %}

Via JavaScript

Call a modal with id myModal with a single line of JavaScript:

{% highlight js %}$('#myModal').modal(options){% endhighlight %}

Options

Options can be passed via data attributes or JavaScript. For data attributes, append the option name to data-, as in data-backdrop="".

Name type default description
backdrop boolean true Includes a modal-backdrop element. Alternatively, specify static for a backdrop which doesn't close the modal on click.
keyboard boolean true Closes the modal when escape key is pressed
show boolean true Shows the modal when initialized.
remote path false

If a remote URL is provided, content will be loaded via jQuery's load method and injected into the .modal-body. If you're using the data api, you may alternatively use the href tag to specify the remote source. An example of this is shown below:

{% highlight html %} Click me {% endhighlight %}

Methods

.modal(options)

Activates your content as a modal. Accepts an optional options object.

{% highlight js %} $('#myModal').modal({ keyboard: false }) {% endhighlight %}

.modal('toggle')

Manually toggles a modal.

{% highlight js %}$('#myModal').modal('toggle'){% endhighlight %}

.modal('show')

Manually opens a modal.

{% highlight js %}$('#myModal').modal('show'){% endhighlight %}

.modal('hide')

Manually hides a modal.

{% highlight js %}$('#myModal').modal('hide'){% endhighlight %}

Events

Bootstrap's modal class exposes a few events for hooking into modal functionality.

Event Type Description
show This event fires immediately when the show instance method is called.
shown This event is fired when the modal has been made visible to the user (will wait for CSS transitions to complete).
hide This event is fired immediately when the hide instance method has been called.
hidden This event is fired when the modal has finished being hidden from the user (will wait for CSS transitions to complete).
{% highlight js %} $('#myModal').on('hidden.bs.modal', function () { // do something… }) {% endhighlight %}

Example in navbar

The ScrollSpy plugin is for automatically updating nav targets based on scroll position. Scroll the area below the navbar and watch the active class change. The dropdown sub items will be highlighted as well.

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Usage

Via data attributes

To easily add scrollspy behavior to your topbar navigation, add data-spy="scroll" to the element you want to spy on (most typically this would be the <body>. Then add the data-target attribute with the ID or class of the parent element of any Bootstrap .nav component.

{% highlight html %} ... {% endhighlight %}

Via JavaScript

Call the scrollspy via JavaScript:

{% highlight js %} $('#navbar-example').scrollspy() {% endhighlight %}

Resolvable ID targets required

Navbar links must have resolvable id targets. For example, a <a href="#home">home</a> must correspond to something in the DOM like <div id="home"></div>.

Methods

.scrollspy('refresh')

When using scrollspy in conjunction with adding or removing of elements from the DOM, you'll need to call the refresh method like so:

{% highlight js %} $('[data-spy="scroll"]').each(function () { var $spy = $(this).scrollspy('refresh') }); {% endhighlight %}

Options

Options can be passed via data attributes or JavaScript. For data attributes, append the option name to data-, as in data-offset="".

Name type default description
offset number 10 Pixels to offset from top when calculating position of scroll.

Events

Event Type Description
activate This event fires whenever a new item becomes activated by the scrollspy.
{% highlight js %} $('#myScrollspy').on('activate.bs.scrollspy', function () { // do something… }) {% endhighlight %}

Example tabs

Add quick, dynamic tab functionality to transition through panes of local content, even via dropdown menus.

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Usage

Enable tabbable tabs via JavaScript (each tab needs to be activated individually):

{% highlight js %} $('#myTab a').click(function (e) { e.preventDefault(); $(this).tab('show'); }) {% endhighlight %}

You can activate individual tabs in several ways:

{% highlight js %} $('#myTab a[href="#profile"]').tab('show'); // Select tab by name $('#myTab a:first').tab('show'); // Select first tab $('#myTab a:last').tab('show'); // Select last tab $('#myTab li:eq(2) a').tab('show'); // Select third tab (0-indexed) {% endhighlight %}

Markup

You can activate a tab or pill navigation without writing any JavaScript by simply specifying data-toggle="tab" or data-toggle="pill" on an element. Adding the nav and nav-tabs classes to the tab ul will apply the Bootstrap tab styling.

{% highlight html %} {% endhighlight %}

To make tabs fade in, add .fade to each .tab-pane.

Methods

$().tab

Activates a tab element and content container. Tab should have either a data-target or an href targeting a container node in the DOM.

{% highlight html %}
...
...
...
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{% endhighlight %}

Events

Event Type Description
show This event fires on tab show, but before the new tab has been shown. Use event.target and event.relatedTarget to target the active tab and the previous active tab (if available) respectively.
shown This event fires on tab show after a tab has been shown. Use event.target and event.relatedTarget to target the active tab and the previous active tab (if available) respectively.
{% highlight js %} $('a[data-toggle="tab"]').on('shown.bs.tab', function (e) { e.target // activated tab e.relatedTarget // previous tab }) {% endhighlight %}

Examples

Inspired by the excellent jQuery.tipsy plugin written by Jason Frame; Tooltips are an updated version, which don't rely on images, use CSS3 for animations, and data-attributes for local title storage.

Hover over the links below to see tooltips:

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Tooltips in button groups and input groups require special setting

When using tooltips on elements within a .btn-group or an .input-group, you'll have to specify the option container: 'body' (documented below) to avoid unwanted side effects (such as the element growing wider and/or losing its rounded corners when the tooltip is triggered).


Usage

Trigger the tooltip via JavaScript:

{% highlight js %} $('#example').tooltip(options) {% endhighlight %}

Options

Options can be passed via data attributes or JavaScript. For data attributes, append the option name to data-, as in data-animation="".

Name type default description
animation boolean true apply a CSS fade transition to the tooltip
html boolean false Insert HTML into the tooltip. If false, jQuery's text method will be used to insert content into the DOM. Use text if you're worried about XSS attacks.
placement string | function 'top' how to position the tooltip - top | bottom | left | right
selector string false If a selector is provided, tooltip objects will be delegated to the specified targets.
title string | function '' default title value if title tag isn't present
trigger string 'hover focus' how tooltip is triggered - click | hover | focus | manual. Note you case pass trigger multiple, space separated, trigger types.
delay number | object 0

delay showing and hiding the tooltip (ms) - does not apply to manual trigger type

If a number is supplied, delay is applied to both hide/show

Object structure is: delay: { show: 500, hide: 100 }

container string | false false

Appends the tooltip to a specific element. Example: container: 'body'

Data attributes for individual tooltips

Options for individual tooltips can alternatively be specified through the use of data attributes, as explained above.

Markup

{% highlight html %} Hover over me {% endhighlight %}

Methods

$().tooltip(options)

Attaches a tooltip handler to an element collection.

.tooltip('show')

Reveals an element's tooltip.

{% highlight js %}$('#element').tooltip('show'){% endhighlight %}

.tooltip('hide')

Hides an element's tooltip.

{% highlight js %}$('#element').tooltip('hide'){% endhighlight %}

.tooltip('toggle')

Toggles an element's tooltip.

{% highlight js %}$('#element').tooltip('toggle'){% endhighlight %}

.tooltip('destroy')

Hides and destroys an element's tooltip.

{% highlight js %}$('#element').tooltip('destroy'){% endhighlight %}

Examples

Add small overlays of content, like those on the iPad, to any element for housing secondary information. Hover over the button to trigger the popover.

Plugin dependency

Popovers require the tooltip plugin to be included in your version of Bootstrap.

Popovers in button groups and input groups require special setting

When using popovers on elements within a .btn-group or an .input-group, you'll have to specify the option container: 'body' (documented below) to avoid unwanted side effects (such as the element growing wider and/or losing its rounded corners when the popover is triggered).

Static popover

Four options are available: top, right, bottom, and left aligned.

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Live demo

Click to toggle popover

Four directions


Usage

Enable popovers via JavaScript:

{% highlight js %}$('#example').popover(options){% endhighlight %}

Options

Options can be passed via data attributes or JavaScript. For data attributes, append the option name to data-, as in data-animation="".

Name type default description
animation boolean true apply a CSS fade transition to the tooltip
html boolean false Insert HTML into the popover. If false, jQuery's text method will be used to insert content into the DOM. Use text if you're worried about XSS attacks.
placement string | function 'right' how to position the popover - top | bottom | left | right
selector string false if a selector is provided, tooltip objects will be delegated to the specified targets if a selector is provided, tooltip objects will be delegated to the specified targets. in practice, this is used to enable dynamic HTML content to have popovers added. See this and an informative example.
trigger string 'click' how popover is triggered - click | hover | focus | manual
title string | function '' default title value if title attribute isn't present
content string | function '' default content value if data-content attribute isn't present
delay number | object 0

delay showing and hiding the popover (ms) - does not apply to manual trigger type

If a number is supplied, delay is applied to both hide/show

Object structure is: delay: { show: 500, hide: 100 }

container string | false false

Appends the popover to a specific element. Example: container: 'body'

Data attributes for individual popovers

Options for individual popovers can alternatively be specified through the use of data attributes, as explained above.

Markup

For performance reasons, the Tooltip and Popover data-apis are opt in. If you would like to use them just specify a selector option.

Methods

$().popover(options)

Initializes popovers for an element collection.

.popover('show')

Reveals an elements popover.

{% highlight js %}$('#element').popover('show'){% endhighlight %}

.popover('hide')

Hides an elements popover.

{% highlight js %}$('#element').popover('hide'){% endhighlight %}

.popover('toggle')

Toggles an elements popover.

{% highlight js %}$('#element').popover('toggle'){% endhighlight %}

.popover('destroy')

Hides and destroys an element's popover.

{% highlight js %}$('#element').popover('destroy'){% endhighlight %}

Example alerts

Add dismiss functionality to all alert messages with this plugin.

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Usage

Enable dismissal of an alert via JavaScript:

{% highlight js %}$(".alert").alert(){% endhighlight %}

Markup

Just add data-dismiss="alert" to your close button to automatically give an alert close functionality.

{% highlight html %}×{% endhighlight %}

Methods

$().alert()

Wraps all alerts with close functionality. To have your alerts animate out when closed, make sure they have the .fade and .in class already applied to them.

.alert('close')

Closes an alert.

{% highlight js %}$(".alert").alert('close'){% endhighlight %}

Events

Bootstrap's alert class exposes a few events for hooking into alert functionality.

Event Type Description
close This event fires immediately when the close instance method is called.
closed This event is fired when the alert has been closed (will wait for CSS transitions to complete).
{% highlight js %} $('#my-alert').bind('closed.bs.alert', function () { // do something… }) {% endhighlight %}

Example uses

Do more with buttons. Control button states or create groups of buttons for more components like toolbars.

Stateful

Add data-loading-text="Loading..." to use a loading state on a button.

{% highlight html %} {% endhighlight %}

Single toggle

Add data-toggle="button" to activate toggling on a single button.

{% highlight html %} {% endhighlight %}

Checkbox

Add data-toggle="buttons-checkbox" for checkbox style toggling on btn-group.

{% highlight html %}
{% endhighlight %}

Radio

Add data-toggle="buttons-radio" for radio style toggling on btn-group.

{% highlight html %}
{% endhighlight %}

Usage

Enable buttons via JavaScript:

{% highlight js %} $('.nav-tabs').button() {% endhighlight %}

Markup

Data attributes are integral to the button plugin. Check out the example code below for the various markup types.

Options

None

Methods

$().button('toggle')

Toggles push state. Gives the button the appearance that it has been activated.

Auto toggling

You can enable auto toggling of a button by using the data-toggle attribute.

{% highlight html %} {% endhighlight %}

$().button('loading')

Sets button state to loading - disables button and swaps text to loading text. Loading text should be defined on the button element using the data attribute data-loading-text.

{% highlight html %} {% endhighlight %}

Cross-browser compatibility

Firefox persists the disabled state across page loads. A workaround for this is to use autocomplete="off".

$().button('reset')

Resets button state - swaps text to original text.

$().button(string)

Resets button state - swaps text to any data defined text state.

{% highlight html %} {% endhighlight %}

About

Get base styles and flexible support for collapsible components like accordions and navigation.

Plugin dependency

Collapse requires the transitions plugin to be included in your version of Bootstrap.

Example accordion

Using the collapse plugin, we built a simple accordion style widget:

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You can also use the plugin without the accordion markup. Make a button toggle the expanding and collapsing of another element.

{% highlight html %}
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{% endhighlight %}

Usage

Via data attributes

Just add data-toggle="collapse" and a data-target to element to automatically assign control of a collapsible element. The data-target attribute accepts a CSS selector to apply the collapse to. Be sure to add the class collapse to the collapsible element. If you'd like it to default open, add the additional class in.

To add accordion-like group management to a collapsible control, add the data attribute data-parent="#selector". Refer to the demo to see this in action.

Via JavaScript

Enable manually with:

{% highlight js %} $(".collapse").collapse() {% endhighlight %}

Options

Options can be passed via data attributes or JavaScript. For data attributes, append the option name to data-, as in data-parent="".

Name type default description
parent selector false If selector then all collapsible elements under the specified parent will be closed when this collapsible item is shown. (similar to traditional accordion behavior)
toggle boolean true Toggles the collapsible element on invocation

Methods

.collapse(options)

Activates your content as a collapsible element. Accepts an optional options object. {% highlight js %} $('#myCollapsible').collapse({ toggle: false }) {% endhighlight %}

.collapse('toggle')

Toggles a collapsible element to shown or hidden.

.collapse('show')

Shows a collapsible element.

.collapse('hide')

Hides a collapsible element.

Events

Bootstrap's collapse class exposes a few events for hooking into collapse functionality.

Event Type Description
show This event fires immediately when the show instance method is called.
shown This event is fired when a collapse element has been made visible to the user (will wait for CSS transitions to complete).
hide This event is fired immediately when the hide method has been called.
hidden This event is fired when a collapse element has been hidden from the user (will wait for CSS transitions to complete).
{% highlight js %} $('#myCollapsible').on('hidden.bs.collapse', function () { // do something… }) {% endhighlight %}

Example

The subnavigation on the left is a live demo of the affix plugin.


Usage

Via data attributes

To easily add affix behavior to any element, just add data-spy="affix" to the element you want to spy on. Then use offsets to define when to toggle the pinning of an element on and off.

{% highlight html %}
...
{% endhighlight %}

Requires positioning

You must manage the position of a pinned element and the behavior of its immediate parent. Position is controlled by affix, affix-top, and affix-bottom. Remember to check for a potentially collapsed parent when the affix kicks in as it's removing content from the normal flow of the page.

Via JavaScript

Call the affix plugin via JavaScript:

{% highlight js %} $('#navbar').affix() {% endhighlight %}

Methods

.affix('refresh')

When using affix in conjunction with adding or removing of elements from the DOM, you'll want to call the refresh method:

{% highlight js %} $('[data-spy="affix"]').each(function () { $(this).affix('refresh') }); {% endhighlight %}

Options

Options can be passed via data attributes or JavaScript. For data attributes, append the option name to data-, as in data-offset-top="200".

Name type default description
offset number | function | object 10 Pixels to offset from screen when calculating position of scroll. If a single number is provided, the offset will be applied in both top and left directions. To listen for a single direction, or multiple unique offsets, just provide an object offset: { x: 10 }. Use a function when you need to dynamically provide an offset (useful for some responsive designs).