I'm using bootstrap modals, and showing and hiding them from javascript like this:

    $("#download_polling_box").modal("show")
    ...
    $("#download_polling_box").modal("hide")

however - when I had the following:

<div class="modal fade">

It worked great... once... From then on - show worked, but hide just... didn't. You could still hit close on the dialog, and it would go away but hide from javascript wouldn't work.

I did lots of googling and found a stack overflow that said just remove "fade". So I did... and it fixed the problem perfectly.

But... I want the fade effect. Is it possible to have both?