bootstrap jquery show.bs.modal event won't fire

Question

i\'m using the modal example from the bootstrap 3 docs. the modal works. however i need to access the show.bs.modal event when it fires. for now i\'m just trying:

Answer 1

Wrap your function in $(document).ready(function() {, or more simply, $(function() {. In CoffeeScript, this would look like

$ ->
  $('#myModal').on 'show.bs.modal', (event)->

Without it, the JavaScript is executing before the document loads, and #myModal is not part of the DOM yet. Here is the Bootstrap reference.