I am trying to use a modal as a popup help window.
I set backdrop to \'nothing\'.
When the modal is opened (without backdrop) input fields in \'original\' page cannot be foc
as Eric Freese said, "A modal dialog by definition shouldn't allow the user to interact with anything below it."
i guess what you are looking for could be found in the Popover, which has the option to allow html content http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#popovers