title: Bootstrap modal not launching
body: <p>I am a beginner in Bootstrap and learning from this <a href="http://bootstrapdocs.com/v1.3.0/docs/javascript.html#overview" rel="nofollow">site</a>
  This is my code and when i press <code>launch modal</code> nothing happens
  Please tell me what I have missed</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
    &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;Prices for todo app&lt;/title&gt;
      &lt;meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"&gt;
      &lt;!-- Bootstrap --&gt;
      &lt;link href="bootstrap-3.0.0/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen"&gt;
      &lt;link href="bootstrap-3.0.0/dist/css/custom.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen"&gt;
      &lt;!-- HTML5 shim and Respond.js IE8 support of HTML5 elements and media queries --&gt;
      &lt;!--[if lt IE 9]&gt;
        &lt;script src="bootstrap-3.0.0/assets/js/html5shiv.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
        &lt;script src="bootstrap-3.0.0/assets/js/respond.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
      &lt;![endif]--&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  &lt;a class="btn" data-controls-modal="my-modal" data-backdrop="true" &gt;Launch Modal&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;form role="form"&gt;
    &lt;div class="form-group"&gt;
      &lt;label for="exampleInputEmail1"&gt;Email address&lt;/label&gt;
      &lt;input type="email" class="form-control" id="exampleInputEmail1" placeholder="Enter email"&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;div class="form-group"&gt;
      &lt;label for="exampleInputPassword1"&gt;Password&lt;/label&gt;
      &lt;input type="password" class="form-control" id="exampleInputPassword1" placeholder="Password"&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;div class="form-group"&gt;
      &lt;label for="exampleInputFile"&gt;File input&lt;/label&gt;
      &lt;input type="file" id="exampleInputFile"&gt;
      &lt;p class="help-block"&gt;Example block-level help text here.&lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;div class="checkbox"&gt;
      &lt;label&gt;
        &lt;input type="checkbox"&gt; Check me out
      &lt;/label&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;button type="submit" class="btn btn-default"&gt;Submit&lt;/button&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
   &lt;script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
      &lt;!-- Include all compiled plugins (below), or include individual files as needed --&gt;
      &lt;script src="bootstrap-3.0.0/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
    (function() {
      var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true;
      po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js';
      var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);
    })();
    $('#my-modal').modal({
    show:true,
    closeOnEscape: true
  });
  &lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>