title: Twitter Bootstrap Modal - IsShown
body: <p>Hello Fellow SO users,</p>
  
  <p>Got this problem where i auto populate a modal box.</p>
  
  <p>Sometimes it already has content, so i tried doing a hide/show on each request. 
  But the show is fired before the hide function is done, so it breaks the script.</p>
  
  <p>I can't do a bind to "hidden", because if it's the first time - it won't fire the hidden function from bootstrap.</p>
  
  <p>Using modal('true') i can see the object has a isShown element, but does anyone know how i can access it?</p>
  
  <p>The console.log shows this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$backdrop
      [div.modal-backdrop]
  
  $element
      [div#modal-from-dom.modal]
  
  isShown
      true
  
  settings
      Object { backdrop="static", keyboard=true, show=false}
  
  hide
      function()
  
  show
      function()
  
  toggle
      function()
  
  __proto__
      Object { toggle=function(), show=function(), hide=function()}
  </code></pre>