Modal: consider supporting stacked modals

[pkozlowski-opensource]

That is - modals that can be opened from modals. The current thinking is:

• we are very reluctant to support those as it is very, very bad UX
• "real life" sometimes "requires" those anyway....

Will try to resist us long as possible before implementing stacked modals, but let's have this issue to track interest / real-life usage scenarios.

[natcohen]

I think it should be supported (for your record)

[Quinn-L]

I use modal for yes/no confirmation dialogs.
However, if stacked modals aren't supported this means you can't have 'normal' modals with data entry which then uses modal confirmation dialogs. I guess one could argue data entry in modals are a bad UX?

[pkozlowski-opensource]

Yeh, I'm kind of resigning to the reality of many projects and bracing for supporting this... But won't get to it before we land datepicker.

[pkozlowski-opensource]

Voice in the discussion: twbs/bootstrap#20607 (comment)

[asadsahi]

I also agree with @pkozlowski-opensource stacked modal aren't good from UX perspective. Also, we had huge number of problems in one of large SPA build in Angular 1. Where there were confirmation dialogs, terms dialogs on top of existing dialogs, which caused more complexity, especially when in a web app reload happens, it is difficult to maintain state for those. We totally scrappeed the idea of having functional templates in modal. only for confirmation dialogs etc.

[tytskyi]

Is there any plans to support backdrop position in between stacked modals?
It turns that for each inner modal its backdrop doesn't cover previous modal.

There is some quick reproduction: http://plnkr.co/edit/FG03lIbHjzM9wAZMoLWL?p=preview