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

Had the same issue. For me it was that i loaded jquery twice in this order:

1. Loaded jQuery
2. Loaded Bootstrap
3. Loaded jQuery again

When jQuery was loaded the second time it somehow broke the references to bootstrap and the modal opened but the on('shown.bs..') method never fired.