I am trying to use the dialog
element.
When the dialog/modal is closed, the body should be scrollable.
When the dialog/modal is open, if it has larg
Simple solution is : Once the mnodel is displayed make a one more DIV as overlay which covers full screen, in that place css { pointer-events:none} and model will be placed on top of that. user can not click on body content other than model data.
I have created sample: http://jsfiddle.net/z3sgvnox/
<body id="content-body">
<div id="container">
<dialog id="my-dialog">
<div id="my-dialog__content">
<form method="dialog">
<menu>
<button id="cancel-button" value="cancel">Cancel</button>
</menu>
</form>
</div>
</dialog>
<menu>
<button id="open-dialog">Open Dialog</button>
</menu>
</div>
</body>
CSS
#container {
height: 100vh;
width: 100vw;
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
background: #ccc;
}
#my-dialog {
margin-top: 1rem;
margin-bottom: 3rem;
width: 50%;
overflow-y: auto;
max-height: 80%;
}
.hideScroll{
overflow:hidden;
pointer-events:none;
}
#my-dialog__content {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
height: 200vh;
}
menu {
width: 100%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#cancel-button {
width: 100%
}
JS:
(function() {
var openBtn = document.getElementById('open-dialog');
var myDialog = document.getElementById('my-dialog');
var bodyData = document.getElementById('content-body');
openBtn.addEventListener('click', function() {
if (typeof myDialog.showModal === "function") {
myDialog.showModal();
bodyData.classList.add("hideScroll");
} else {
alert("Dialog API not supported by browser");
}
});
})();
Update
I created another example where your main content is not scrolled with your modal if it is larger than your main content. You can set position
to fixed
on your container to achieve this.
(function() {
var openBtn = document.getElementById('open-dialog');
var myDialog = document.getElementById('my-dialog');
openBtn.addEventListener('click', function() {
if (typeof myDialog.showModal === "function") {
myDialog.showModal();
} else {
alert("Dialog API not supported by browser");
}
});
})();
#container {
height: 100vh;
width: 100vw;
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
background: #ccc;
}
#my-dialog {
margin-top: 1rem;
margin-bottom: 3rem;
top: 3rem;
width: 50%;
overflow-y: auto;
}
#my-dialog__content {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
height: 200vh;
}
menu {
width: 100%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#cancel-button {
width: 100%
}
<div id="container">
<dialog id="my-dialog">
<div id="my-dialog__content">
<form method="dialog">
<menu>
<button id="cancel-button" value="cancel">Cancel</button>
</menu>
</form>
</div>
</dialog>
<menu>
<button id="open-dialog">Open Dialog</button>
</menu>
</div>
Original answer
You can set a max-height
on your dialog and style the contents of your dialog accordingly. See example below.
(function() {
var openBtn = document.getElementById('open-dialog');
var myDialog = document.getElementById('my-dialog');
openBtn.addEventListener('click', function() {
if (typeof myDialog.showModal === "function") {
myDialog.showModal();
} else {
alert("Dialog API not supported by browser");
}
});
})();
#my-dialog {
width: 50%;
max-height: 50vh;
overflow-y: auto;
}
#my-dialog__content {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
height: 150vh;
}
menu {
width: 100%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#cancel-button {
width: 100%
}
<div id="container">
<dialog id="my-dialog">
<div id="my-dialog__content">
<form method="dialog">
<menu>
<button id="cancel-button" value="cancel">Cancel</button>
</menu>
</form>
</div>
</dialog>
<menu>
<button id="open-dialog">Open Dialog</button>
</menu>
</div>
So I tried it as well and came up with this:
(function() {
var openBtn = document.querySelector("button#open");
var myDialog = document.querySelector("dialog");
openBtn.addEventListener('click', function() {
if (typeof myDialog.showModal === "function") {
myDialog.showModal();
document.querySelector("body").classList.add("overflow-hidden");
} else {
alert("Dialog API not supported by browser");
}
});
})();
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.wrapper {
height: 10000px;
}
dialog {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
border: 0;
z-index: 100;
background: transparent;
overflow-y: auto;
}
dialog>div {
width: 50%;
height: 500px;
background: white;
border: 3px solid black;
margin: 0 auto;
margin-top: 50px;
}
.overflow-hidden {
overflow: hidden;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<dialog>
<div>
<form method="dialog">
<button onclick='document.body.classList.remove("overflow-hidden");' value="cancel">Cancel</button>
</form>
</div>
</dialog>
<button id="open">Open Dialog</button>
<h4>You can scroll the body now but not when the dialog is opened.</h4>
</div>
You might have noticed that I added two lines of JS to hide/show the overflow
of the body
and you will probably need them as you can't target the body
with pure CSS if you want to check if the dialog
is opened or not.
If you don't want them you can remove them and it just works fine. However, you will have two scroll bars on the right side. This is how it looks without the JS:
(function() {
var openBtn = document.querySelector("button#open");
var myDialog = document.querySelector("dialog");
openBtn.addEventListener('click', function() {
if (typeof myDialog.showModal === "function") {
myDialog.showModal();
} else {
alert("Dialog API not supported by browser");
}
});
})();
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.wrapper {
height: 10000px;
}
dialog {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
border: 0;
z-index: 100;
background: transparent;
overflow-y: auto;
}
dialog>div {
width: 50%;
height: 500px;
background: white;
border: 3px solid black;
margin: 0 auto;
margin-top: 50px;
}
.overflow-hidden {
overflow: hidden;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<dialog>
<div>
<form method="dialog">
<button value="cancel">Cancel</button>
</form>
</div>
</dialog>
<button id="open">Open Dialog</button>
</div>
If you need any explanation let me know but I believe the code should be self-explanatory.