Bootstrap 2 Javascript Plugin Issues (Modal, Tooltip, Popover)

Bootstrap 2 Javascript Plugin Issues (Modal, Tooltip, Popover)

byujensenbyujensen Posts: 2Questions: 0Answers: 0
edited July 2012 in Bug reports
I recently discovered Datatables for Twitter Bootstrap and I love it! Great work!

Many of the bootstrap javascript plugins don't seem to work consistently with datatables. The specific javascript plugins I have tried without success are:

- tooltips
- popover
- modal

(as seen on http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html)

I've set up a page with as little customizing as possible, based on the example shown on the datatables website (http://datatables.net/media/blog/bootstrap_2/).
The following link shows exactly what I'm talking about:

http://jakeandjake.com/testing/test.html

and here are the other files stored locally:

http://jakeandjake.com/testing/mymodal.html - the modal that is displayed
http://jakeandjake.com/testing/bootstrap.js - the entire bootstrap javascript plugins


My Observations

- The "My Modal" at the top (not in the datatable) always works
- The "My Modal" links within the datatable work when the page is first loaded
- The "My Modal" links within the datatable continue to work when searching for something like "OSX"
- The "My Modal" links within the datatable break when searching for something like "em"
- The "My Modal" links within the datatable break when doing various column sorting, but they don't always break with each sort.
For example: Sorting the "Rendering engine" column ascending yields working links, while sorting it descending breaks the links.
- After trying a broken "My Modal" link (after first breaking the links by sorting or searching), you can "fix" the links by resorting or deleting the search
- This issue is consitent accross browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox)

Any advice?

Replies

  • allanallan Posts: 63,381Questions: 1Answers: 10,449 Site admin
    Sounds very much like the top FAQ is relevant here: http://datatables.net/faqs#events . You need to use live or delegate events.

    Allan
  • byujensenbyujensen Posts: 2Questions: 0Answers: 0
    edited July 2012
    Thanks for your help Allan. I finally got this to work.

    Here are some links that were helpful:

    http://www.datatables.net/forums/discussion/1191/use-jquery-live-to-add-events-to-a-column/p1

    I was using the dynamically loading AJAX modal for bootstrap (https://gist.github.com/1688900). First, I changed the the js from this:
    [code]
    $(document).ready(function() {

    // Support for AJAX loaded modal window.
    // Focuses on first input textbox after it loads the window.
    $('[data-toggle="modal"]').click(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    var href = $(this).attr('href');
    if (href.indexOf('#') == 0) {
    $(href).modal('open');
    } else {
    $.get(href, function(data) {
    $('' + data + '').modal();
    }).success(function() { $('input:text:visible:first').focus(); });
    }
    });

    });
    [/code]

    to this:

    [code]
    $(document).ready(function() {

    // This is what triggers for a modal link in Datatables.
    // Note I put an extra class in my links, class='mymodallink'
    // in the tag. Note that the e.preventDefault() is
    // commented out. I'm not sure why it wouldn't work
    // with it...
    $("#example .mymodallink").live("click", function() {
    //e.preventDefault();
    var href = $(this).attr('href');

    if (href.indexOf('#') == 0) {
    $(href).modal('open');
    } else {
    $.get(href, function(data) {
    $('' + data + '').modal();
    }).success(function() { $('input:text:visible:first').focus(); });
    }
    });

    // This is the normal way of using an AJAX modal based on
    // https://gist.github.com/1688900
    // except I changed the data-toggle attribute to 'normalmodal'
    // because I didn't want the datatables links to sometimes
    // trigger two modals.
    $('[data-toggle="normalmodal"]').click(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    var href = $(this).attr('href');
    if (href.indexOf('#') == 0) {
    $(href).modal('open');
    } else {
    $.get(href, function(data) {
    $('' + data + '').modal();
    }).success(function() { $('input:text:visible:first').focus(); });
    }
    });

    });

    [/code]

    It may not be the prettiest code ever, but it works for me. Thanks.
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