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evan_ on July 29, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Modals in React

For one thing it hides the scrollbar which in some browsers causes the whole page to shift by a number of pixels. It's not the worst thing but it's a little bit distracting. My QA people recently sent me a bug that was basically this issue.

moretti on July 29, 2015 | [–]

Exactly, and you can't simply set a left margin because the scrollbar width is different in every OS. This is what bootstrap does: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/83bfff7f0765503b990b9...

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