Confirm deletion in modal / dialog using Twitter Bootstrap?

GET recipe

For this task you can use already available plugins and bootstrap extensions. Or you can make your own confirmation popup with just 3 lines of code. Check it out.

Say we have this links (note data-href instead of href) or buttons that we want to have delete confirmation for:

<a href="#" data-href="delete.php?id=23" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#confirm-delete">Delete record #23</a>

<button class="btn btn-default" data-href="/delete.php?id=54" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#confirm-delete">
    Delete record #54
</button>

Here #confirm-delete points to a modal popup div in your HTML. It should have an "OK" button configured like this:

<div class="modal fade" id="confirm-delete" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
    <div class="modal-dialog">
        <div class="modal-content">
            <div class="modal-header">
                ...
            </div>
            <div class="modal-body">
                ...
            </div>
            <div class="modal-footer">
                <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Cancel</button>
                <a class="btn btn-danger btn-ok">Delete</a>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Now you only need this little javascript to make a delete action confirmable:

$('#confirm-delete').on('show.bs.modal', function(e) {
    $(this).find('.btn-ok').attr('href', $(e.relatedTarget).data('href'));
});

So on show.bs.modal event delete button href is set to URL with corresponding record id.

Demo: http://plnkr.co/edit/NePR0BQf3VmKtuMmhVR7?p=preview

POST recipe

I realize that in some cases there might be needed to perform POST or DELETE request rather then GET. It it still pretty simple without too much code. Take a look at the demo below with this approach:

// Bind click to OK button within popup
$('#confirm-delete').on('click', '.btn-ok', function(e) {

  var $modalDiv = $(e.delegateTarget);
  var id = $(this).data('recordId');

  $modalDiv.addClass('loading');
  $.post('/api/record/' + id).then(function() {
     $modalDiv.modal('hide').removeClass('loading');
  });
});

// Bind to modal opening to set necessary data properties to be used to make request
$('#confirm-delete').on('show.bs.modal', function(e) {
  var data = $(e.relatedTarget).data();
  $('.title', this).text(data.recordTitle);
  $('.btn-ok', this).data('recordId', data.recordId);
});

// Bind click to OK button within popup
$('#confirm-delete').on('click', '.btn-ok', function(e) {

  var $modalDiv = $(e.delegateTarget);
  var id = $(this).data('recordId');

  $modalDiv.addClass('loading');
  setTimeout(function() {
    $modalDiv.modal('hide').removeClass('loading');
  }, 1000);

  // In reality would be something like this
  // $modalDiv.addClass('loading');
  // $.post('/api/record/' + id).then(function() {
  //   $modalDiv.modal('hide').removeClass('loading');
  // });
});

// Bind to modal opening to set necessary data properties to be used to make request
$('#confirm-delete').on('show.bs.modal', function(e) {
  var data = $(e.relatedTarget).data();
  $('.title', this).text(data.recordTitle);
  $('.btn-ok', this).data('recordId', data.recordId);
});

.modal.loading .modal-content:before {
  content: 'Loading...';
  text-align: center;
  line-height: 155px;
  font-size: 20px;
  background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .8);
  position: absolute;
  top: 55px;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  color: #EEE;
  z-index: 1000;
}

<script data-require="jquery@*" data-semver="2.0.3" src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-2.0.3.min.js"></script>
<script data-require="bootstrap@*" data-semver="3.1.1" src="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link data-require="[email protected]" data-semver="3.1.1" rel="stylesheet" href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" />

<div class="modal fade" id="confirm-delete" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
  <div class="modal-dialog">
    <div class="modal-content">
      <div class="modal-header">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">×</button>
        <h4 class="modal-title" id="myModalLabel">Confirm Delete</h4>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-body">
        <p>You are about to delete <b><i class="title"></i></b> record, this procedure is irreversible.</p>
        <p>Do you want to proceed?</p>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-footer">
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Cancel</button>
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-danger btn-ok">Delete</button>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
<a href="#" data-record-id="23" data-record-title="The first one" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#confirm-delete">
        Delete "The first one", #23
    </a>
<br />
<button class="btn btn-default" data-record-id="54" data-record-title="Something cool" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#confirm-delete">
  Delete "Something cool", #54
</button>

Demo: http://plnkr.co/edit/V4GUuSueuuxiGr4L9LmG?p=preview

Bootstrap 2.3

Here is an original version of the code I made when I was answering this question for Bootstrap 2.3 modal.

$('#modal').on('show', function() {
    var id = $(this).data('id'),
        removeBtn = $(this).find('.danger');
    removeBtn.attr('href', removeBtn.attr('href').replace(/(&|\?)ref=\d*/, '$1ref=' + id));
});

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/MjmVr/1595/

http://bootboxjs.com/ - latest works with Bootstrap 3.0.0

The simplest possible example:

bootbox.alert("Hello world!"); 

From the site:

The library exposes three methods designed to mimic their native JavaScript equivalents. Their exact method signatures are flexible as each can take various parameters to customise labels and specify defaults, but they are most commonly called like so:

bootbox.alert(message, callback)
bootbox.prompt(message, callback)
bootbox.confirm(message, callback)

Here's a snippet of it in action (click "Run code snippet" below):

$(function() {
  bootbox.alert("Hello world!");
});

<!-- required includes -->
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.2/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.2/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<!-- bootbox.js at 4.4.0 -->
<script src="https://rawgit.com/makeusabrew/bootbox/f3a04a57877cab071738de558581fbc91812dce9/bootbox.js"></script>