data-target
is used by bootstrap to make your life easier. You (mostly) do not need to write a single line of Javascript to use their pre-made JavaScript components.
The data-target
attribute should contain a CSS selector that points to the HTML Element that will be changed.
<!-- Button trigger modal --> <button class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal"> Launch demo modal </button> <!-- Modal --> <div class="modal fade" id="myModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true"> [...] </div>
In this example, the button has data-target="#myModal"
, if you click on it, <div id="myModal">...</div>
will be modified (in this case faded in). This happens because #myModal
in CSS selectors points to elements that have an id
attribute with the myModal
value.
Further information about the HTML5 “data-” attribute: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Using_data_attributes