Twitter bootstrap scrollable modal

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I m using twitter bootstrap for a project I am working on    I have a modal window that has a somewhat longer form in it and I didn t like that when the window got too small the modal didn t scroll  if just disappeared off my page which isn t scrollable     To fix this I used the following css   modal       overflow-y auto      max-height 90       margin-top -45       This works exactly the way I want it to in Chrome  that is  the form is full size when the window is big enough  but as the window shrinks the modal shrinks and becomes scrollable   The problem is that in IE the modal is off the screen  Does anyone have a better solution to this problem   My example can be found at tinyhousemap com  click  Add an Entry to the map  in the navigation window for the modal to appear   Thanks

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I was able to overcome this by using the  vh  metric with max-height on the  modal-body element  70vh looked about right for my uses  Then set the overflow-y to auto so it only scrolls when needed    modal-body      overflow-y  auto     max-height  70vh

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Try and override bootstrap s     modal   position  fixed    With    modal   position  absolute    It worked for me

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None of this will work as expected   The correct way is to change position  fixed to position  absolute for  modal class

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The problem with  grenoult s CSS solution  which does work  mostly   is that it is fully responsive and on mobile when the keyboard pops up  i e  when they click in an input in the modal dialog  the screen size changes and the modal dialog s size changes and it can hide the input they just clicked on so they can t see what they are typing   The better solution for me was to use jquery as follows       modal-body   css    max-height      window  height   - 212   overflow-y     auto        It isn t responsive to changing the window size  but that doesn t happen that often anyway

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Your modal is being hidden in firefox  and that is because of the negative margin declaration you have inside your general stylesheet    modal       margin-top  -45      remove this        max-height  90       overflow-y  auto      Remove the negative margin and everything works just fine

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In case of using  modal  overflow-y  auto    would create additional scroll bar on the right of the page  when body is already overflowed  The work around for this is to remove overflow from the body tag temporarily and set modal overflow-y to auto  Example      myModalSelector   on  show bs modal   function                  Store initial body overflow value          initial body overflow      body   css  overflow                Let modal be scrollable           this  css  overflow-y    auto               body   css  overflow    hidden             on  hide bs modal   function                  Reverse previous initialization           this  css  overflow-y    hidden               body   css  overflow    initial body overflow

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How about the below solution  It worked for me  Try this    modal  modal-body       max-height  420px      overflow-y  auto      Details    remove overflow-y  auto  or overflow  auto  from  modal class   important  remove max-height  400px  from  modal class  important  Add max-height  400px  to  modal  modal-body  or what ever  can be 420px or less  but would not go more than 450px  Add overflow-y  auto  to  modal  modal-body   Done  only body will scroll

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I also added   modal   position  absolute      to the stylesheet to allow the dialog to scroll  but if the user has moved down to the bottom of a long page the modal can end up hidden off the top of the visible area   I understand this is no longer an issue in bootstrap 3  but looking for a relatively quick fix until we upgrade I ended up with the above plus calling the following before opening the modal      modal   css  top     document  scrollTop     50     Seems to be happy in FireFox  Chrome  IE10 8  amp  7  the browsers I had to hand

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I  ve done a tiny solution using only jQuery   First  you need to put an additional class to your  lt div class  modal-body  gt  I called  ativa-scroll   so it becomes something like this    lt div class  modal-body ativa-scroll  gt   So now just put this piece of code on your page  near your JS loading    lt script type  text javascript  gt      document  ready ajustamodal       window  resize ajustamodal     function ajustamodal         var altura     window  height   - 155    value corresponding to the modal heading   footer         ativa-scroll   css   height  altura  overflow-y   auto          lt  script gt    I works perfectly for me  also in a responsive way

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Important part     modal-dialog      overflow-y  initial  important    modal-body      max-height  calc 100vh - 200px       overflow-y  auto      This works for Bootstrap 3 without JS code and is responsive   Source

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