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

I had a similar but different problem and still unable to work when I use $('#myModal'). I was able to get it working when I use $(window).

My other problem is that I found that the show event would not fire if I stored my modal div html content in a javascript variable like.

var content="

the event never fired because it didn't occur

my fix was to include the divs in the html body

    

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