I\'ve copied and pasted the example code from twitter bootstrap to create a basic modal window in my Rails 3.2 app:
I just came across this issue, and found custom CSS style sheet text color:#ffffff is submerging the text content, because model background color is same! i.e. .model-content{ background-color:#ffffff;} Make sure to override it in your custom style sheet by adding the following
.modal-content{color:#646464 !important;}
May be this helps.