How to disable Escape Key for Twitter Bootstrap Modals?

Solution 1:

By adding data-keyboard="false" fixes the problem.

Something like this: <div class="modal hide fade" data-keyboard="false" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">

Solution 2:

Twitter's Bootstrap modal.js (see http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/javascript.html#modals) itself has keyboard true or false Boolean. You can avoid escape keypress and click outside the modal using following script:

    $(function () {
        $('.modal').modal({
            show: true,
            keyboard: false,
            backdrop: 'static'
        });
    });

working demo :

$(function () {
     $('.modal').modal({
      show:true,
      keyboard: false,
      backdrop: 'static'
    });
});

 <head>
        <!-- Required meta tags -->
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">

        <!-- Bootstrap CSS -->
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-ggOyR0iXCbMQv3Xipma34MD+dH/1fQ784/j6cY/iJTQUOhcWr7x9JvoRxT2MZw1T" crossorigin="anonymous">

        <title>Hello, world!</title>
      </head>
      <body>
       
        <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-q8i/X+965DzO0rT7abK41JStQIAqVgRVzpbzo5smXKp4YfRvH+8abtTE1Pi6jizo" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
        <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.7/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-UO2eT0CpHqdSJQ6hJty5KVphtPhzWj9WO1clHTMGa3JDZwrnQq4sF86dIHNDz0W1" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
        <script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-JjSmVgyd0p3pXB1rRibZUAYoIIy6OrQ6VrjIEaFf/nJGzIxFDsf4x0xIM+B07jRM" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
      </body>
      
      <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#exampleModal">
      Launch demo modal
    </button>

      <div class="modal" id="exampleModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog">
      <div class="modal-dialog" role="document">
        <div class="modal-content">
          <div class="modal-header">
            <h5 class="modal-title">Modal title</h5>
            <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close">
              <span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span>
            </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-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
            <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Save changes</button>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>

Solution 3:

If your modal dialog looks like this

<div id="myModal" class="modal hide fade" tabindex="-1" ...>
   ....
</div>

Removing tabindex="-1" should disable Escape key.

Solution 4:

you need data-keyboard="false" and data-backdrop="static"