Bootstrap modal 'loaded' event on remote fragment

Question

I'm currently using Twitter Bootstrap modal component and i have an issue where I use jquery validation plugin on input fields in the content I load remotely using the data-remote attribute.

Because the content is loaded after jquery validation has run across the dom, validation doesn't occur for the newly loaded elements.

I have a solution where I modify bootstrap.js (the modal class), see below.

  var Modal = function (element, options) {
    this.options = options
    this.$element = $(element)
      .delegate('[data-dismiss="modal"]', 'click.dismiss.modal', $.proxy(this.hide, this))
    //this.options.remote && this.$element.find('.modal-body').load(this.options.remote)

    this.options.remote && this.$element.find('.modal-body').load(this.options.remote, $.proxy(function () {
        this.$element.trigger('loaded')
    }, this)) //my additions
  }

I trigger a 'loaded' event to the call that loads the external html fragment.

I already have this event wired up and i call the validation on the newly loaded elements.

$('#myModal').on('loaded', function () {
                $.validator.unobtrusive.parse($(this));
            });

My issue is that I had to modify bootstrap.js to achieve this, is there a way I can have this working externally without modifying bootstrap.js? Is there a way to access the modal object on a page and attach the 'loaded' event to it? i'd like to do this in an external script or within a page so i don't need to worry about bootstrap versions.

Answer 1

According to both these issues:

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/5169

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/6846

..as of now the Bootstrap developers are digging their heels in and refusing to add a loaded event into Bootstrap.

So instead they recommend you avoid using the data-remote markup and load the data yourself into the modal:

$('#myModal').modal(your_options).find('.modal-body').load('request_url', function () {
  // do cool stuff here all day… no need to change bootstrap
}')