Bootstrap modal horizontal text overflowing

Question

With a large text input inside <p> tags the text overflows the bounds of the modal and off the screen requiring a horizontal scrollbar to read.

I've copied the example code from the Bootstrap documentation and simply added a long text string inside the modal-body section. The example on the Bootstrap documentation website seems to word wrap the text correctly but my code does not.

Here is my markup:

<div class="modal fade in" id="myModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
    <div class="modal-dialog">
        <div class="modal-content">
            <div class="modal-header">
                <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">&times;</button>
                 <h4 id="myModalLabel" class="modal-title">Modal Test</h4>

            </div>
            <div class="modal-body">
                <p>Details below:</p>
                <p>TEST: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa</p>
            </div>
            <div class="modal-footer">
                <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" data-dismiss="modal">Done</button>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

You can also see exactly what I mean by horizontal overflow on the jsFiddle I created here: http://jsfiddle.net/pX39W/11/

I'm sure it's something simple and I've just been staring at it too long to notice! Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

One option would be to use the word-wrap property (assuming the text is one long word):

.modal-body p {
    word-wrap: break-word;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/pX39W/12/