[SOLVED] Bootstrap modal not displaying

Bootstrap modal not displaying

I've copied and pasted the example code from twitter bootstrap to create a basic modal window in my Rails 3.2 app:

<!-- Modal -->
<div id="myModal" class="modal hide fade" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
  <div class="modal-header">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">×</button>
    <h3 id="myModalLabel">Modal header</h3>
  </div>
  <div class="modal-body">
    <p>One fine body…</p>
  </div>
  <div class="modal-footer">
    <button class="btn" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">Close</button>
    <button class="btn btn-primary">Save changes</button>
  </div>
</div>

<a href= "#myModal"  role="button" class="btn" data-toggle="modal">Launch demo modal</a>

It's not working. It's not because of jQuery or scripts not loading because a) it doesn't need to load any js because its using data targeting and b) I've checked the console and everything is firing perfectly.

It's also not because I'm including both boostrap.js and bootstrap-modal.js...I've checked and I'm not.

I'm at a loss. It should just work. Other bootstrap js is working fine on the site.

The only thing I can think of is it's something to do with the definition of the classes .hide and .fade - when I take them out, the modal shows up fine. When I include them, it won't show up at all.

Could jQuery UI be interfering with it?

Please ask me for any further info you might need to help me...

UPDATE:

So I think I see the problem, but I don't know how to fix it. When I check the console, right at the top I see that

element.style {
display: none;
}

is somehow now part of the div, so in the console it looks like this:

<div id="myModal" class="modal hide fade" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true" style="display: none;" >

But I don't know why it is adding it in, or where from. How can I track this down?

Solution

I tracked down the reason.

Just to give it some general usefulness to anyone coming to this question. If you can't figure out what's wrong, try doing a 'search all' for any classes of 'modal' 'fade' 'fade in' and 'hide' in any style sheets in your application.

I had a single instance of 'fade' being defined in a random css file, and that's what was stopping it displaying as it was overriding bootstrap. Once I deleted the reference, everything was ok.