Javascript for Bootstrap

Bring Bootstrap's components to life with custom plugins for jQuery and Ender

Getting started

Integrating javascript with the Bootstrap library is super easy. Below we go over the basics and provide you with some awesome plugins to get you started!

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What's included

Bring some of Bootstrap's primary components to life with new custom plugins that work with jQuery and Ender. We encourage you to extend and modify them to fit your specific development needs.

File Description
bootstrap-modal.js Our Modal plugin is a super slim take on the traditional modal js plugin! We took special care to include only the bare functionality that we require at twitter.
bootstrap-alerts.js The alert plugin is a super tiny class for adding close functionality to alerts.
bootstrap-dropdown.js This plugin is for adding dropdown interaction to the bootstrap navbar or tabbed navigations.
bootstrap-scrollspy.js The ScrollSpy plugin is for adding an auto updating nav based on scroll position to the bootstrap navbar.
bootstrap-tabs.js This plugin adds quick, dynamic tab and pill functionality for cycling through local content.
bootstrap-twipsy.js Based on the excellent jQuery.tipsy plugin written by Jason Frame; twipsy is an updated version, which doesn't rely on images, uses css3 for animations, and data-attributes for local title storage!
bootstrap-popover.js The popover plugin provides a simple interface for adding popovers to your application. It extends the boostrap-twipsy.js plugin, so be sure to grab that file as well when including popovers in your project!

Is javascript necessary?

Nope! Bootstrap is designed first and foremost to be a CSS library. This javascript provides a basic interactive layer on top of the included styles.

However, for those who do need javascript, we've provided the plugins above to help you understand how to integrate Bootstrap with javascript and to give you a quick, lightweight option for the basic functionality right away.

For more information and to see some live demos, please refer to our plugin documentation page.

This plugin is for adding the scrollspy (auto updating nav) interaction to the bootstrap navbar.

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Using boostrap-scrollspy.js

$('#navbar').dropdown()

Markup

To easily add scrollspy behavior to your nav, just add the data-scrollspy attribute to the .navbar.

<div class="navbar" data-scrollspy="scrollspy" >...</div>

Methods

$().scrollspy()

Auto activates navigation buttons by users scroll position.

$('body > .navbar').scrollSpy()

Notice Navbar anchor tags must have resolvable id targets. For example, a <a href="#home">home</a> must correspond to something in the dom like <div id="home"></div>.

.scrollspy('refresh')

The scrollspy caches nav buttons and section coordinates for performance. If you need to update this cache (likely if you have dynamic content) just call this refresh method. If you used the data attribute to define your scrollspy, just call refresh on the body.

$('body').scrollspy('refresh')

Demo

Checkout the the navbar navigation on this page.

This plugin adds quick, dynamic tab and pill functionality.

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Using boostrap-tabs.js

$('.tabs').tabs()

Markup

You can activate a tab or pill navigation without writing any javascript by simply giving them a data-tabs or data-pills attribute.

 <ul class="tabs" data-tabs="tabs" >...</ul>

Methods

$().tabs or $().pills

Activates tab and pill functionality for a given container. Tab links should reference id's in the document.

<ul class="tabs">
  <li class="active"><a href="#home">Home</a></li>
  <li><a href="#profile">Profile</a></li>
  <li><a href="#messages">Messages</a></li>
  <li><a href="#settings">Settings</a></li>
</ul>

<div class="pill-content">
  <div class="active" id="home">...</div>
  <div id="profile">...</div>
  <div id="messages">...</div>
  <div id="settings">...</div>
</div>

<script>
  $(function () {
    $('.tabs').tabs()
  })
</script>

Demo

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Based on the excellent jQuery.tipsy plugin written by Jason Frame; twipsy is an updated version, which doesn't rely on images, uses css3 for animations, and data-attributes for title storage!

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Using bootstrap-twipsy.js

$('#example').twipsy(options)

Options

Name type default description
animate boolean true apply a css fade transition to the tooltip
delayIn number 0 delay before showing tooltip (ms)
delayOut number 0 delay before hiding tooltip (ms)
fallback string '' text to use when no tooltip title is present
placement string 'above' how to position the tooltip - above | below | left | right
html boolean false allows html content within tooltip
live boolean false use event delegation instead of individual event handlers
offset number 0 pixel offset of tooltip from target element
title string | function 'title' attribute or method for retrieving title text
trigger string 'hover' how tooltip is triggered - hover | focus | manual

Methods

$().twipsy(options)

Attaches a twipsy handler to an element collection.

.twipsy('show')

Reveals an elements twipsy.

$('#element').twipsy('show')

.twipsy('hide')

Hides an elements twipsy.

$('#element').twipsy('hide')

.twipsy(true)

Returns an elements twipsy class instance.

$('#element').twipsy(true)

Notice Alternatively, this can be retrieved with $().data('twipsy').

Demo

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The popover plugin provides a simple interface for adding popovers to your application. It extends the boostrap-twipsy.js plugin, so be sure to grab that file as well when including popovers in your project!

Download

Using boostrap-popover.js

$('#example').popover(options)

Options

Name type default description
animate boolean true apply a css fade transition to the tooltip
delayIn number 0 delay before showing tooltip (ms)
delayOut number 0 delay before hiding tooltip (ms)
fallback string '' text to use when no tooltip title is present
placement string 'right' how to position the tooltip - above | below | left | right
html boolean false allows html content within tooltip
live boolean false use event delegation instead of individual event handlers
offset number 0 pixel offset of tooltip from target element
title string | function 'title' attribute or method for retrieving title text
content string | function 'data-content' attribute or method for retrieving content text
trigger string 'hover' how tooltip is triggered - hover | focus | manual

Methods

$().popover(options)

Initializes popovers for an element collection.

.popover('show')

Reveals an elements popover.

$('#element').popover('show')

.popover('hide')

Hides an elements popover.

$('#element').popover('hide')

Demo

hover for popover

The alert plugin is a super tiny class for adding close functionality to alerts.

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Using bootstrap-alerts.js

$(".alert-message").alert()

Markup

Just add a data-alert attribute to your alert messages to automatically give them close functionality.

Methods

$().alert()

Wraps all alerts with close functionality. To have your alerts animate out when closed, make sure they have the .fade and .in class already applied to them.

.alert('close')

Closes an alert.

$(".alert-message").alert('close')

Demo

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