Bootstrap modal backdrop = 'static' not working

Question

First, I open my modal using this:

$('#myModal').modal('show');

Then, in another situation, I need that this same modal does not close when pressing ESC/clicking outside, so I use this:

$('#myModal').modal({
    backdrop: 'static',
    keyboard: false
})

But once I open my modal by the first method, the second one doesn't work. Any hints?

How can I force backdrop value switch to work?

Solution 1

I found a workaround for this issue.

Once the modal has been hidden bootstrap data still remains on it. To prevent that I had the following:

$('#myModal').modal('show'); //display something
//...

// if you don't want to lose the reference to previous backdrop
$('#myModal').modal('hide'); 
$('#myModal').data('bs.modal',null); // this clears the BS modal data
//...

// now works as you would expect
$('#myModal').modal({backdrop:'static', keyboard:false});

Solution 2

I had the same problem with Bootstrap 4.1.1 and it only worked when I added the data attributes to the html

<div class="modal fade show" id="myModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog"
  style="display: block;" data-keyboard="false" data-backdrop="static">
...

Solution 3

Similar to Daniele Piccioni but a bit more concise:

$('#myModal').modal({backdrop: true, keyboard: false, show: true});
$('#myModal').data('bs.modal').options.backdrop = 'static';

This is for Bootstrap 3.+

See also: Change Bootstrap modal option once it already exists

Solution 4

There are two ways to handle this:

1) You can directly add the data-attributes into the HTML -

<div class="modal fade show" id="myModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog"
style="display: block;" data-keyboard="false" data-backdrop="static">

2) You can use JQuery (For Bootstrap V4) -

$("#myModal").data('bs.modal')._config.backdrop = 'static'; 

for Bootstrap V3 -

$('#myModal').data('bs.modal').options.backdrop = 'static';

Solution 5

In Angular Try:

[config]="{backdrop: 'static', keyboard: false}"

In the modal div. This solution is working 100%

Eg:

<div bsModal #dangerModal="bs-modal" [config]="{backdrop: 'static', keyboard: false}" class="modal fade" tabindex="-1"
 role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">

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Comments

[Luca Detomi]

This is the solution also for Bootstrap 3 in case you open modals using markup instead of JS methods

[Aryo]

Yes, this is also true even if the modal was opened using Javascript.

[Srikrushna]

Explain you answer which will easy to understand