How to put scroll bar only for modal-body?

Answer 1

A simple js solution to set modal height proportional to body's height :

$(document).ready(function () {
    $('head').append('<style type="text/css">.modal .modal-body {max-height: ' + ($('body').height() * .8) + 'px;overflow-y: auto;}.modal-open .modal{overflow-y: hidden !important;}</style>');
});

body's height has to be 100% :

html, body {
    height: 100%;
    min-height: 100%;
}

I set modal body height to 80% of body, this can be of course customized.

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

I know this is an old topic but this may help someone else.

I was able to make the body scroll by making the modal-dialog element position fixed. And since I would never know the exact height of the browser window, I took the information I was sure about, the height of the header and the footer. I was then able to make the modal-body element's top and bottom margins match those heights. This then produced the result I was looking for. I threw together a fiddle to show my work.

also, if you want a full screen dialog just un-comment the width:auto; inside the .modal-dialog.full-screen section.

https://jsfiddle.net/lot224/znrktLej/

And here is the css that I used to modify the bootstrap dialog.

.modal-dialog.full-screen {
    position:fixed;
    //width:auto;  // uncomment to make the width based on the left/right attributes.
    margin:auto;                        
    left:0px;
    right:0px;
    top:0px;
    bottom:0px;
}

.modal-dialog.full-screen .modal-content {
      position:absolute;
      left:10px;
      right:10px;
      top:10px;
      bottom:10px;
}

.modal-dialog.full-screen .modal-content .modal-header {
        height:55px;  // adjust as needed.
}

.modal-dialog.full-screen .modal-content .modal-body {
        overflow-y: auto;
          position: absolute;
          top: 0;
          bottom: 0;
        left:0;
        right:0;
          margin-top: 55px; // .modal-header height
          margin-bottom: 80px;  // .modal-footer height
}

.modal-dialog.full-screen .modal-content .modal-footer {
        height:80px;  // adjust as needed.
        position:absolute;
        bottom:0;
        left:0;
        right:0;
}

Answer 3

Problem solved with combine solution @carlos calla and @jonathan marston.

    /* Important part */
.modal-dialog{
    overflow-y: initial !important
}
.modal-body{
    max-height: calc(100vh - 200px);
    overflow-y: auto;
}

Answer 4

Optional: If you don't want the modal to exceed the window height and use a scrollbar in the .modal-body, you can use this responsive solution. See a working demo here: http://codepen.io/dimbslmh/full/mKfCc/

function setModalMaxHeight(element) {
  this.$element     = $(element);
  this.$content     = this.$element.find('.modal-content');
  var borderWidth   = this.$content.outerHeight() - this.$content.innerHeight();
  var dialogMargin  = $(window).width() > 767 ? 60 : 20;
  var contentHeight = $(window).height() - (dialogMargin + borderWidth);
  var headerHeight  = this.$element.find('.modal-header').outerHeight() || 0;
  var footerHeight  = this.$element.find('.modal-footer').outerHeight() || 0;
  var maxHeight     = contentHeight - (headerHeight + footerHeight);

  this.$content.css({
      'overflow': 'hidden'
  });

  this.$element
    .find('.modal-body').css({
      'max-height': maxHeight,
      'overflow-y': 'auto'
  });
}

$('.modal').on('show.bs.modal', function() {
  $(this).show();
  setModalMaxHeight(this);
});

$(window).resize(function() {
  if ($('.modal.in').length != 0) {
    setModalMaxHeight($('.modal.in'));
  }
});

Answer 5

What worked for me is setting the height to 100% the having the overflow on auto hope this will help

   <div style="height: 100%;overflow-y: auto;"> Some text o othre div scroll </div>

Answer 6

For Bootstrap versions >= 4.3

Bootstrap 4.3 added new built-in scroll feature to modals. This makes only the modal-body content scroll if the size of the content would otherwise make the page scroll. To use it, just add the class modal-dialog-scrollable to the same div that has the modal-dialog class.

Here is an example:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<!-- Button trigger modal -->
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#exampleModalScrollable">
  Launch demo modal
</button>

<!-- Modal -->
<div class="modal fade" id="exampleModalScrollable" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="exampleModalScrollableTitle" aria-hidden="true">
  <div class="modal-dialog modal-dialog-scrollable" role="document">
    <div class="modal-content">
      <div class="modal-header">
        <h5 class="modal-title" id="exampleModalScrollableTitle">Modal title</h5>
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close">
          <span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span>
        </button>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-body">
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      </div>
      <div class="modal-footer">
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Save changes</button>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>