Bootstrap 5 Modal

Modal

Bootstrap Modals offer a lightweight, multi-purpose JavaScript popup to add dialogs to yours. Learn how to customize Bootstrap Modals easily. Multiple examples and tutorial.

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How it works

Bootstrap modals are lightweight and multi-purpose popups. Modals are split into three primary sections: header, body, and footer. Each has its role and so should be used accordingly. Before getting started with CoreUI for Bootstrap’s modal component, be sure to read the following as our menu options have recently changed.

Modals are built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. They’re positioned over everything else in the document and remove scroll from the <body> so that modal content scrolls instead.
Clicking on the modal “backdrop” will automatically close the modal.
Bootstrap only supports one modal window at a time. Nested modals aren’t supported as we believe them to be poor user experiences.
Modals use position: fixed, which can sometimes be a bit particular about its rendering. Whenever possible, place your modal HTML in a top-level position to avoid potential interference from other elements. You’ll likely run into issues when nesting a .modal within another fixed element.
Once again, due to position: fixed, there are some caveats with using modals on mobile devices. See our browser support docs for details.
Due to how HTML5 defines its semantics, the autofocus HTML attribute has no effect in Bootstrap modals. To achieve the same effect, use some custom JavaScript:

const myModal = document.getElementById('myModal')
const myInput = document.getElementById('myInput')

myModal.addEventListener('shown.coreui.modal', () => {
  myInput.focus()
})

The animation effect of this component is dependent on the prefers-reduced-motion media query. See the reduced motion section of our accessibility documentation.

Keep reading for demos and usage guidelines.

Examples

Below is a static modal example (meaning its position and display have been overridden). Included are the modal header, modal body (required for padding), and modal footer (optional). We ask that you include modal headers with dismiss actions whenever possible, or provide another explicit dismiss action.

<div class="modal" tabindex="-1">
  <div class="modal-dialog">
    <div class="modal-content">
      <div class="modal-header">
        <h5 class="modal-title">Modal title</h5>
        <button type="button" class="btn-close" data-coreui-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"></button>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-body">
        <p>Modal body text goes here.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-footer">
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-coreui-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Save changes</button>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Live demo

Toggle a working modal demo by clicking the button below. It will slide down and fade in from the top of the page.

<!-- Button trigger modal -->
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" data-coreui-toggle="modal" data-coreui-target="#exampleModal">
  Launch demo modal
</button>

<!-- Modal -->
<div class="modal fade" id="exampleModal" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="exampleModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
  <div class="modal-dialog">
    <div class="modal-content">
      <div class="modal-header">
        <h5 class="modal-title" id="exampleModalLabel">Modal title</h5>
        <button type="button" class="btn-close" data-coreui-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"></button>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-body">
        ...
      </div>
      <div class="modal-footer">
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-coreui-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Save changes</button>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Static backdrop

When backdrop is set to static, the modal will not close when clicking outside of it. Click the button below to try it.

<!-- Button trigger modal -->
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" data-coreui-toggle="modal" data-coreui-target="#staticBackdrop">
  Launch static backdrop modal
</button>

<!-- Modal -->
<div class="modal fade" id="staticBackdrop" data-coreui-backdrop="static" data-coreui-keyboard="false" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="staticBackdropLabel" aria-hidden="true">
  <div class="modal-dialog">
    <div class="modal-content">
      <div class="modal-header">
        <h5 class="modal-title" id="staticBackdropLabel">Modal title</h5>
        <button type="button" class="btn-close" data-coreui-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"></button>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-body">
        ...
      </div>
      <div class="modal-footer">
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-coreui-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Understood</button>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Scrolling long content

When modals become too long for the user’s viewport or device, they scroll independent of the page itself. Try the demo below to see what we mean.

You can also create a scrollable modal that allows scroll the modal body by adding .modal-dialog-scrollable to .modal-dialog.

<!-- Scrollable modal -->
<div class="modal-dialog modal-dialog-scrollable">
  ...
</div>

Vertically centered

Add .modal-dialog-centered to .modal-dialog to vertically center the modal.

<!-- Vertically centered modal -->
<div class="modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered">
  ...
</div>

<!-- Vertically centered scrollable modal -->
<div class="modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered modal-dialog-scrollable">
  ...
</div>

Tooltips and popovers

Tooltips and popovers can be placed within modals as needed. When modals are closed, any tooltips and popovers within are also automatically dismissed.

<div class="modal-body">
  <h5>Popover in a modal</h5>
  <p>This <button class="btn btn-secondary" data-coreui-toggle="popover" title="Popover title" data-coreui-content="Popover body content is set in this attribute.">button</button> triggers a popover on click.</p>
  <hr>
  <h5>Tooltips in a modal</h5>
  <p><a href="#" data-coreui-toggle="tooltip" title="Tooltip">This link</a> and <a href="#" data-coreui-toggle="tooltip" title="Tooltip">that link</a> have tooltips on hover.</p>
</div>

Using the grid

Utilize the Bootstrap grid system within a modal by nesting .container-fluid within the .modal-body. Then, use the normal grid system classes as you would anywhere else.

<div class="modal-body">
  <div class="container-fluid">
    <div class="row">
      <div class="col-md-4">.col-md-4</div>
      <div class="col-md-4 ms-auto">.col-md-4 .ms-auto</div>
    </div>
    <div class="row">
      <div class="col-md-3 ms-auto">.col-md-3 .ms-auto</div>
      <div class="col-md-2 ms-auto">.col-md-2 .ms-auto</div>
    </div>
    <div class="row">
      <div class="col-md-6 ms-auto">.col-md-6 .ms-auto</div>
    </div>
    <div class="row">
      <div class="col-sm-9">
        Level 1: .col-sm-9
        <div class="row">
          <div class="col-8 col-sm-6">
            Level 2: .col-8 .col-sm-6
          </div>
          <div class="col-4 col-sm-6">
            Level 2: .col-4 .col-sm-6
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Have a bunch of buttons that all trigger the same modal with slightly different contents? Use event.relatedTarget and HTML data-coreui-* attributes to vary the contents of the modal depending on which button was clicked.

Below is a live demo followed by example HTML and JavaScript. For more information, read the modal events docs for details on relatedTarget.

html

<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" data-coreui-toggle="modal" data-coreui-target="#exampleModal" data-coreui-whatever="@mdo">Open modal for @mdo</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" data-coreui-toggle="modal" data-coreui-target="#exampleModal" data-coreui-whatever="@fat">Open modal for @fat</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" data-coreui-toggle="modal" data-coreui-target="#exampleModal" data-coreui-whatever="@getbootstrap">Open modal for @getbootstrap</button>

<div class="modal fade" id="exampleModal" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="exampleModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
  <div class="modal-dialog">
    <div class="modal-content">
      <div class="modal-header">
        <h5 class="modal-title" id="exampleModalLabel">New message</h5>
        <button type="button" class="btn-close" data-coreui-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"></button>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-body">
        <form>
          <div class="mb-3">
            <label for="recipient-name" class="col-form-label">Recipient:</label>
            <input type="text" class="form-control" id="recipient-name">
          </div>
          <div class="mb-3">
            <label for="message-text" class="col-form-label">Message:</label>
            <textarea class="form-control" id="message-text"></textarea>
          </div>
        </form>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-footer">
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-coreui-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Send message</button>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

docs/assets/js/partials/snippets.js

const exampleModal = document.getElementById('exampleModal')
if (exampleModal) {
  exampleModal.addEventListener('show.coreui.modal', event => {
    // Button that triggered the modal
    const button = event.relatedTarget
    // Extract info from data-coreui-* attributes
    const recipient = button.getAttribute('data-coreui-whatever')
    // If necessary, you could initiate an Ajax request here
    // and then do the updating in a callback.

    // Update the modal's content.
    const modalTitle = exampleModal.querySelector('.modal-title')
    const modalBodyInput = exampleModal.querySelector('.modal-body input')

    modalTitle.textContent = `New message to ${recipient}`
    modalBodyInput.value = recipient
  })
}

Toggle between modals

Toggle between multiple modals with some clever placement of the data-coreui-target and data-coreui-toggle attributes. For example, you could toggle a password reset modal from within an already open sign in modal. Please note multiple modals cannot be open at the same time—this method simply toggles between two separate modals.

html

<div class="modal fade" id="exampleModalToggle" aria-hidden="true" aria-labelledby="exampleModalToggleLabel" tabindex="-1">
  <div class="modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered">
    <div class="modal-content">
      <div class="modal-header">
        <h5 class="modal-title" id="exampleModalToggleLabel">Modal 1</h5>
        <button type="button" class="btn-close" data-coreui-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"></button>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-body">
        Show a second modal and hide this one with the button below.
      </div>
      <div class="modal-footer">
        <button class="btn btn-primary" data-coreui-target="#exampleModalToggle2" data-coreui-toggle="modal">Open second modal</button>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
<div class="modal fade" id="exampleModalToggle2" aria-hidden="true" aria-labelledby="exampleModalToggleLabel2" tabindex="-1">
  <div class="modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered">
    <div class="modal-content">
      <div class="modal-header">
        <h5 class="modal-title" id="exampleModalToggleLabel2">Modal 2</h5>
        <button type="button" class="btn-close" data-coreui-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"></button>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-body">
        Hide this modal and show the first with the button below.
      </div>
      <div class="modal-footer">
        <button class="btn btn-primary" data-coreui-target="#exampleModalToggle" data-coreui-toggle="modal">Back to first</button>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
<button class="btn btn-primary" data-coreui-target="#exampleModalToggle" data-coreui-toggle="modal">Open first modal</button>

Change animation

The $modal-fade-transform variable determines the transform state of .modal-dialog before the modal fade-in animation, the $modal-show-transform variable determines the transform of .modal-dialog at the end of the modal fade-in animation.

If you want for example a zoom-in animation, you can set $modal-fade-transform: scale(.8).

Remove animation

For modals that simply appear rather than fade in to view, remove the .fade class from your modal markup.

<div class="modal" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="..." aria-hidden="true">
  ...
</div>

Dynamic heights

If the height of a modal changes while it is open, you should call myModal.handleUpdate() to readjust the modal’s position in case a scrollbar appears.

Accessibility

Be sure to add aria-labelledby="...", referencing the modal title, to .modal. Additionally, you may give a description of your modal dialog with aria-describedby on .modal. Note that you don’t need to add role="dialog" since we already add it via JavaScript.

Embedding YouTube videos

Embedding YouTube videos in modals requires additional JavaScript not in Bootstrap to automatically stop playback and more. See this helpful Stack Overflow post for more information.

Optional sizes

Modals have three optional sizes, available via modifier classes to be placed on a .modal-dialog. These sizes kick in at certain breakpoints to avoid horizontal scrollbars on narrower viewports.

Size	Class	Modal max-width
Small	`.modal-sm`	`300px`
Default	None	`500px`
Large	`.modal-lg`	`800px`
Extra large	`.modal-xl`	`1140px`

Our default modal without modifier class constitutes the “medium” size modal.

<div class="modal-dialog modal-xl">...</div>
<div class="modal-dialog modal-lg">...</div>
<div class="modal-dialog modal-sm">...</div>

Another override is the option to pop up a modal that covers the user viewport, available via modifier classes that are placed on a .modal-dialog.

Class	Availability
`.modal-fullscreen`	Always
`.modal-fullscreen-sm-down`	`576px`
`.modal-fullscreen-md-down`	`768px`
`.modal-fullscreen-lg-down`	`992px`
`.modal-fullscreen-xl-down`	`1200px`
`.modal-fullscreen-xxl-down`	`1400px`

<!-- Full screen modal -->
<div class="modal-dialog modal-fullscreen-sm-down">
  ...
</div>

Usage

Heads up! In our documentation, all examples show standard CoreUI implementation. If you are using a Bootstrap-compatible version of CoreUI, remember to use the following changes:

In the constructor, please use bootstrap instead of coreui. For example, new bootstrap.Alert(...) instead of new coreui.Alert(...)
In events, please use bs instead of coreui, for example close.bs.alert instead of close.coreui.alert
In data attributes, please use bs instead of coreui. For example, data-bs-toggle="..." instead of data-coreui-toggle="..."

The modal plugin toggles your hidden content on demand, via data attributes or JavaScript. It also overrides default scrolling behavior and generates a .modal-backdrop to provide a click area for dismissing shown modals when clicking outside the modal.

Via data attributes

Toggle

Activate a modal without writing JavaScript. Set data-coreui-toggle="modal" on a controller element, like a button, along with a data-coreui-target="#foo" or href="#foo" to target a specific modal to toggle.

<button type="button" data-coreui-toggle="modal" data-coreui-target="#myModal">Launch modal</button>

Dismiss

Dismissal can be achieved with the data attribute on a button within the modal as demonstrated below:

<button type="button" class="btn-close" data-coreui-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"></button>

or on a button outside the modal using the data-coreui-target as demonstrated below:

<button type="button" class="btn-close" data-coreui-dismiss="modal" data-coreui-target="#my-modal" aria-label="Close"></button>

While both ways to dismiss a modal are supported, keep in mind that dismissing from outside a modal does not match the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide dialog (modal) pattern. Do this at your own risk.

Via JavaScript

Create a modal with a single line of JavaScript:

const myModal = new coreui.Modal(document.getElementById('myModal'), options)
// or
const myModalAlternative = new coreui.Modal('#myModal', options)

Options

As options can be passed via data attributes or JavaScript, you can append an option name to data-coreui-, as in data-coreui-animation="{value}". Make sure to change the case type of the option name from "camelCase" to "kebab-case" when passing the options via data attributes. For example, use data-coreui-custom-class="beautifier" instead of data-coreui-customClass="beautifier".

As of CoreUI 4.2.0, all components support an experimental reserved data attribute data-coreui-config that can house simple component configuration as a JSON string. When an element has data-coreui-config='{"delay":0, "title":123}' and data-coreui-title="456" attributes, the final title value will be 456 and the separate data attributes will override values given on data-coreui-config. In addition, existing data attributes are able to house JSON values like data-coreui-delay='{"show":0,"hide":150}'.

Name	Type	Default	Description
`backdrop`	boolean, `'static'`	`true`	Includes a modal-backdrop element. Alternatively, specify `static` for a backdrop which doesn’t close the modal when clicked.
`focus`	boolean	`true`	Puts the focus on the modal when initialized.
`keyboard`	boolean	`true`	Closes the modal when escape key is pressed.

Methods

Asynchronous methods and transitions

All API methods are asynchronous and start a transition. They return to the caller as soon as the transition is started but before it ends. In addition, a method call on a transitioning component will be ignored.

See our JavaScript documentation for more information.

Passing options

Activates your content as a modal. Accepts an optional options object.

const myModal = new coreui.Modal('#myModal', {
  keyboard: false
})

Method	Description
`dispose`	Destroys an element’s modal. (Removes stored data on the DOM element)
`getInstance`	Static method which allows you to get the modal instance associated with a DOM element.
`getOrCreateInstance`	Static method which allows you to get the modal instance associated with a DOM element, or create a new one in case it wasn’t initialized.
`handleUpdate`	Manually readjust the modal’s position if the height of a modal changes while it is open (i.e. in case a scrollbar appears).
`hide`	Manually hides a modal. Returns to the caller before the modal has actually been hidden (i.e. before the `hidden.coreui.modal` event occurs).
`show`	Manually opens a modal. Returns to the caller before the modal has actually been shown (i.e. before the `shown.coreui.modal` event occurs). Also, you can pass a DOM element as an argument that can be received in the modal events (as the `relatedTarget` property). (i.e. `const modalToggle = document.getElementById('toggleMyModal'); myModal.show(modalToggle)`
`toggle`	Manually toggles a modal. Returns to the caller before the modal has actually been shown or hidden (i.e. before the `shown.coreui.modal` or `hidden.coreui.modal` event occurs).

Events

CoreUI for Bootstrap’s modal class exposes a few events for hooking into modal functionality. All modal events are fired at the modal itself (i.e. at the <div class="modal">).

Event	Description
`hide.coreui.modal`	This event is fired immediately when the `hide` instance method has been called.
`hidden.coreui.modal`	This event is fired when the modal has finished being hidden from the user (will wait for CSS transitions to complete).
`hidePrevented.coreui.modal`	This event is fired when the modal is shown, its backdrop is `static` and a click outside of the modal is performed. The event is also fired when the escape key is pressed and the `keyboard` option is set to `false`.
`show.coreui.modal`	This event fires immediately when the `show` instance method is called. If caused by a click, the clicked element is available as the `relatedTarget` property of the event.
`shown.coreui.modal`	This event is fired when the modal has been made visible to the user (will wait for CSS transitions to complete). If caused by a click, the clicked element is available as the `relatedTarget` property of the event.

const myModalEl = document.getElementById('myModal')
myModalEl.addEventListener('hidden.coreui.modal', event => {
  // do something...
})

Customizing

CSS variables

Modals use local CSS variables on .modal and .modal-backdrop for enhanced real-time customization. Values for the CSS variables are set via Sass, so Sass customization is still supported, too.

scss/_modal.scss

--#{$prefix}modal-zindex: #{$zindex-modal};
--#{$prefix}modal-width: #{$modal-md};
--#{$prefix}modal-padding: #{$modal-inner-padding};
--#{$prefix}modal-margin: #{$modal-dialog-margin};
--#{$prefix}modal-color: #{$modal-content-color};
--#{$prefix}modal-bg: #{$modal-content-bg};
--#{$prefix}modal-border-color: #{$modal-content-border-color};
--#{$prefix}modal-border-width: #{$modal-content-border-width};
--#{$prefix}modal-border-radius: #{$modal-content-border-radius};
--#{$prefix}modal-box-shadow: #{$modal-content-box-shadow-xs};
--#{$prefix}modal-inner-border-radius: #{$modal-content-inner-border-radius};
--#{$prefix}modal-header-padding-x: #{$modal-header-padding-x};
--#{$prefix}modal-header-padding-y: #{$modal-header-padding-y};
--#{$prefix}modal-header-padding: #{$modal-header-padding}; // Todo in v6: Split this padding into x and y
--#{$prefix}modal-header-border-color: #{$modal-header-border-color};
--#{$prefix}modal-header-border-width: #{$modal-header-border-width};
--#{$prefix}modal-title-line-height: #{$modal-title-line-height};
--#{$prefix}modal-footer-gap: #{$modal-footer-margin-between};
--#{$prefix}modal-footer-bg: #{$modal-footer-bg};
--#{$prefix}modal-footer-border-color: #{$modal-footer-border-color};
--#{$prefix}modal-footer-border-width: #{$modal-footer-border-width};

scss/_modal.scss

--#{$prefix}backdrop-zindex: #{$zindex-modal-backdrop};
--#{$prefix}backdrop-bg: #{$modal-backdrop-bg};
--#{$prefix}backdrop-opacity: #{$modal-backdrop-opacity};

SASS variables

scss/_variables.scss

$modal-inner-padding:               $spacer;

$modal-footer-margin-between:       .5rem;

$modal-dialog-margin:               .5rem;
$modal-dialog-margin-y-sm-up:       1.75rem;

$modal-title-line-height:           $line-height-base;

$modal-content-color:               var(--#{$prefix}body-color);
$modal-content-bg:                  var(--#{$prefix}body-bg);
$modal-content-border-color:        var(--#{$prefix}border-color-translucent);
$modal-content-border-width:        var(--#{$prefix}border-width);
$modal-content-border-radius:       var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-lg);
$modal-content-inner-border-radius: subtract($modal-content-border-radius, $modal-content-border-width);
$modal-content-box-shadow-xs:       var(--#{$prefix}box-shadow-sm);
$modal-content-box-shadow-sm-up:    var(--#{$prefix}box-shadow);

$modal-backdrop-bg:                 $black;
$modal-backdrop-opacity:            .5;

$modal-header-border-color:         var(--#{$prefix}border-color);
$modal-header-border-width:         $modal-content-border-width;
$modal-header-padding-y:            $modal-inner-padding;
$modal-header-padding-x:            $modal-inner-padding;
$modal-header-padding:              $modal-header-padding-y $modal-header-padding-x; // Keep this for backwards compatibility

$modal-footer-bg:                   null;
$modal-footer-border-color:         $modal-header-border-color;
$modal-footer-border-width:         $modal-header-border-width;

$modal-sm:                          300px;
$modal-md:                          500px;
$modal-lg:                          800px;
$modal-xl:                          1140px;

$modal-fade-transform:              translate(0, -50px);
$modal-show-transform:              none;
$modal-transition:                  transform .3s ease-out;
$modal-scale-transform:             scale(1.02);

SASS Loop

Responsive fullscreen modals are generated via the $breakpoints map and a loop in scss/_modal.scss.

scss/_modal.scss

@each $breakpoint in map.keys($grid-breakpoints) {
  $infix: breakpoint-infix($breakpoint, $grid-breakpoints);
  $postfix: if($infix != "", $infix + "-down", "");

  @include media-breakpoint-down($breakpoint) {
    .modal-fullscreen#{$postfix} {
      width: 100vw;
      max-width: none;
      height: 100%;
      margin: 0;

      .modal-content {
        height: 100%;
        border: 0;
        @include border-radius(0);
      }

      .modal-header,
      .modal-footer {
        @include border-radius(0);
      }

      .modal-body {
        overflow-y: auto;
      }
    }
  }
}

Bootstrap 5 Modal

Modal

Other frameworks

How it works

Examples

Modal components

Modal title

Live demo

Static backdrop

Scrolling long content

Vertically centered

Tooltips and popovers

Using the grid

Varying modal content

Toggle between modals

Change animation

Remove animation

Dynamic heights

Accessibility

Embedding YouTube videos

Optional sizes

Fullscreen Modal

Usage

Via data attributes

Toggle

Dismiss

Via JavaScript

Options

Methods

Asynchronous methods and transitions

Passing options

Events

Customizing

CSS variables

SASS variables

SASS Loop