JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link href="http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/assets/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/assets/css/bootstrap-responsive.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/assets/js/bootstrap.js"></script>
<script src="http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/extras/coffee-script.js"></script>
<meta charset=utf-8 />
<title>Welcome to JS Bin</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Doppio+One' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
</head>
  
<body>
  
  <div class="container">
      <div class="row">
        <div class="span2">
            <button class="btn" id="button">Show modal</button>
        </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

JavaScript

$('#button').click(function() {
    
  
      $modal = $('<div class="modal hide fade"><h1>This is a modal</h1>');
    $('body').append($modal);
      
      $modal.modal('show');
  
      $modal.on('shown', function() {
      
      alert("This does not show in IE9!");
      
    });
  
  
});