css - How to put scroll bar only for modal-body?

Question

I have the following element:

<div class="modal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true"> 
    <div class="modal-dialog" style="overflow-y: scroll; max-height:85%;  margin-top: 50px; margin-bottom:50px;" > 
        <div class="modal-content"> 
            <div class="modal-header"> 
                <h3 class="modal-title"></h3> 
            </div> 
            <div class="modal-body"></div> 
            <div class="modal-footer"></div> 
        </div> 
    </div> 
</div> 

It shows modal dialog something like this, basically, it puts scroll bar around entire modal-dialog and not modal-body that contains the content I am trying to display.

The image looks something like this:

How do I get a scroll bar around modal-body only?

I have tried assigning style="overflow-y: scroll; max-height:85%; margin-top: 50px; margin-bottom:50px;" to modal-body but it didn't work.

Answer 1

You have to set the height of the .modal-body in and give it overflow-y: auto. Also reset .modal-dialog overflow value to initial.

See the working sample:

http://www.bootply.com/T0yF2ZNTUd

.modal{
    display: block !important; /* I added this to see the modal, you don't need this */
}

/* Important part */
.modal-dialog{
    overflow-y: initial !important
}
.modal-body{
    height: 80vh;
    overflow-y: auto;
}