How to scroll the page when a modal dialog is longer than the screen?

Question

I have a modal dialog in my app which can get quite long in the y direction. This introduces a problem whereby some of the content of the dialog is hidden off the bottom of

Answer 1

fixed positioning alone should have fixed that problem but another good workaround to avoid this issue is to place your modal divs or elements at the bottom of the page not within your sites layout. Most modal plugins give their modal positioning absolute to allow the user keep main page scrolling.

        
        
        

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