How can I change the default width of a Twitter Bootstrap modal box?

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UPDATE:

In bootstrap 3 you need to change the modal-dialog.
So in this case you can add the class modal-admin in the place where modal-dialog stands.

Original Answer (Bootstrap < 3)

Is there a certain reason you’re trying to change it with JS/jQuery?

You can easily do it with just CSS, which means you don’t have to do your styling in the document.
In your own custom CSS file, you add:

body .modal {
    /* new custom width */
    width: 560px;
    /* must be half of the width, minus scrollbar on the left (30px) */
    margin-left: -280px;
}

In your case:

body .modal-admin {
    /* new custom width */
    width: 750px;
    /* must be half of the width, minus scrollbar on the left (30px) */
    margin-left: -375px;
}

The reason I put body before the selector is so that it takes a higher priority than the default. This way you can add it to an custom CSS file, and without worries update Bootstrap.

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