diff --git a/bootstrap.css b/bootstrap.css
index f1a5cc7d3620..c663f08ee0e8 100644
--- a/bootstrap.css
+++ b/bootstrap.css
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  *
  * Designed and built with all the love in the world @twitter by @mdo and @fat.
- * Date: Thu Sep 22 12:52:42 PDT 2011
+ * Date: Tue Oct  4 15:28:53 PDT 2011
  */
 /* Reset.less
  * Props to Eric Meyer (meyerweb.com) for his CSS reset file. We're using an adapted version here	that cuts out some of the reset HTML elements we will never need here (i.e., dfn, samp, etc).
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ textarea {
 /* Variables.less
  * Variables to customize the look and feel of Bootstrap
  * ----------------------------------------------------- */
-/* Variables.less
+/* Mixins.less
  * Snippets of reusable CSS to develop faster and keep code readable
  * ----------------------------------------------------------------- */
 /*
diff --git a/docs/javascript.html b/docs/javascript.html
index 2a81b330789a..2891c44602ae 100644
--- a/docs/javascript.html
+++ b/docs/javascript.html
@@ -195,7 +195,6 @@ <h3>Modal Heading</h3>
           </div>
 
           <button data-controls-modal="modal-from-dom" data-backdrop="true" data-keyboard="true" class="btn danger">Launch Modal</button>
-
         </div>
       </div>
     </section>
@@ -659,6 +658,26 @@ <h3>Using bootstrap-alerts.js</h3>
           <pre class="prettyprint linenums">$(".alert-message").alert()</pre>
           <h3>Markup</h3>
           <p>Just add a <code>data-alert</code> attribute to your alert messages to automatically give them close functionality.</p>
+          <h3>Options</h3>
+          <table class="zebra-striped">
+            <thead>
+             <tr>
+               <th style="width: 100px;">Name</th>
+               <th style="width: 100px;">type</th>
+               <th style="width: 50px;">default</th>
+               <th>description</th>
+             </tr>
+            </thead>
+            <tbody>
+             <tr>
+               <td>selector</td>
+               <td>string</td>
+               <td>'.close'</td>
+               <td>What selector to target for closing an alert.</td>
+             </tr>
+            </tbody>
+          </table>
+
           <h3>Methods</h3>
           <h4>$().alert()</h4>
           <p>Wraps all alerts with close functionality. To have your alerts animate out when closed, make sure they have the <code>.fade</code> and <code>.in</code> class already applied to them.</p>
diff --git a/js/bootstrap-alerts.js b/js/bootstrap-alerts.js
index 266029cc47a9..a8d15e24e0cb 100644
--- a/js/bootstrap-alerts.js
+++ b/js/bootstrap-alerts.js
@@ -51,9 +51,10 @@
  /* ALERT CLASS DEFINITION
   * ====================== */
 
-  var Alert = function ( content, selector ) {
+  var Alert = function ( content, options ) {
+    this.settings = $.extend({}, $.fn.alert.defaults, options)
     this.$element = $(content)
-      .delegate(selector || '.close', 'click', this.close)
+      .delegate(this.settings.selector, 'click', this.close)
   }
 
   Alert.prototype = {
@@ -92,13 +93,19 @@
         return $this.data('alert')[options]()
       }
 
-      $(this).data('alert', new Alert( this ))
+      $(this).data('alert', new Alert( this, options ))
 
     })
   }
 
+  $.fn.alert.defaults = {
+    selector: '.close'
+  }
+
   $(document).ready(function () {
-    new Alert($('body'), '.alert-message[data-alert] .close')
+    new Alert($('body'), {
+      selector: '.alert-message[data-alert] .close'
+    })
   })
 
 }( window.jQuery || window.ender );
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/js/bootstrap-modal.js b/js/bootstrap-modal.js
index 76c4952599fb..2cc910989fbe 100644
--- a/js/bootstrap-modal.js
+++ b/js/bootstrap-modal.js
@@ -53,12 +53,10 @@
   * ============================= */
 
   var Modal = function ( content, options ) {
-    this.settings = $.extend({}, $.fn.modal.defaults)
+    this.settings = $.extend({}, $.fn.modal.defaults, options)
     this.$element = $(content)
       .delegate('.close', 'click.modal', $.proxy(this.hide, this))
 
-    $.extend( this.settings, options )
-
     if ( this.settings.show ) {
       this.show()
     }