Use the buttons plugin for states and toggles.

Stateful	Loading State
Single toggle	Single Toggle
Checkbox	Left Middle Right
Radio	Left Middle Right

Using bootstrap.button

Enable buttons via javascript:

$('.nav-tabs').button()

Markup

Data attributes are integral to the button plugin. Check out the example code below for the various markup types.

<!-- Add data-toggle="button" to activate toggling on a single button -->
<button class="btn" data-toggle="button">Single Toggle</button>

<!-- Add data-toggle="buttons-checkbox" for checkbox style toggling on btn-group -->
<div class="btn-group" data-toggle="buttons-checkbox">
  <button class="btn">Left</button>
  <button class="btn">Middle</button>
  <button class="btn">Right</button>
</div>

<!-- Add data-toggle="buttons-radio" for radio style toggling on btn-group -->
<div class="btn-group" data-toggle="buttons-radio">
  <button class="btn">Left</button>
  <button class="btn">Middle</button>
  <button class="btn">Right</button>
</div>

Methods

$().button('toggle')

Toggles push state. Gives the button the appearance that it has been activated.

<button class="btn" data-toggle="button" >…</button>

$().button('loading')

Sets button state to loading - disables button and swaps text to loading text. Loading text should be defined on the button element using the data attribute data-loading-text.

<button class="btn" data-loading-text="loading stuff..." >...</button>

$().button('reset')

Resets button state - swaps text to original text.

$().button(string)

Resets button state - swaps text to any data defined text state.

<button class="btn" data-complete-text="finished!" >...</button>
<script>
  $('.btn').button('complete')
</script>