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

Sometimes this doesn't work if:

1) you have an error in the java script code before your line with $('#myModal').on('show.bs.modal'...). To troubleshoot put an alert message before the line to see if it comes up when you load the page. To resolve eliminate JSs above to see which one is the problem

2) Another problem is if you load up the JS in wrong order. For example you can have the $('#myModal').on('show.bs.modal'...) part before you actually load JQuery.js. In that case your call will be ignored, so first in the HTML (view page source to be sure) check if the script link to JQuery is above your modal onShow call, otherwise it will be ignored. To troubleshoot put an alert inside the on show an one before. If you see the one before and not the one inside the onShow function it is clear that the function cannot execute. If the spelling is right more than likely your call to JQuery.js is not made or it is made after the onShow part