Scrollbar on bootstrap table

Question

I have table that renders inside a panel which is inside a modal. As the table is relatively large, I'd like to restrict it's rows to say 5 so that the modal does not become scrollable. I looked through SO and google and everywhere I see that I need to set the overflow-y:auto or overflow-y:scroll to get it to work, however in my case, it does not. I also set a random height of 400px and position:absolute. This got the table to be scrollable but now the panel closes with the <thead> and the body of the table renders outside the panel. What's the fix to this?

My code snippet is:

<div class="modal fade">
   <div class="modal-dialog " >
      <div class="modal-content">
         <div class="modal-body">
            <div class="panel panel-default">
               <div class="panel-body">
                  <table class="table table-bordered>
                     <thead>
                         [........]
                     </thead>
                     <tbody style="overflow-y:auto; height:400px; position:absolute>
                     [.......]
                     </tbody>
                   </table>

[...the rest of the </div>s...]

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EDIT

Thanks for the responses. Is there a way to narrow down the scroll bar to the <tbody> alone so that the <thead> remains static?

Answer 1

Wrap it in table-responsive and set a max-height:

.table-responsive {
    max-height:300px;
}

http://www.codeply.com/go/S6MgKWqFvj