Flexbox Based Responsive Modal

Preview:

Description:

A minimal clean responsive modal window built using JavaScript and CSS flexbox.

Press the Esc key, click on the ‘X’ button or background overlay to close the modal window.

How to use it:

Create the modal window that must sit outside main page layout.

<div class="flex align-center align-vert modal modal--align">
  <div class="modal__container">
    <a class="modal__close modal__close--x" aria-hidden="true">&#x2715;</a>
    <p>Although we have an 'X' to close we should always have a button/link to cancel the modal</p>
    <button class="modal__close">Cancel link</button>
  </div>
</div>

Create a modal trigger element on the web page.

<button class="modal-trigger">OPEN MODAL</button>

Place the main JavaScript file ‘modal.js’ at the bottom of the web page.

<script src="modal.js"></script>

The main CSS styles for the modal window.

.modal { display: none; }
.modal--show,
.modal--hide { display: flex; } /* classes fired by js for animation control */
/* This is on the wrapper for the whole modal */
.modal--align {
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  position: fixed;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
  z-index: 999;
}
.modal__container {
  position: relative;
  width: 100%;
  max-width: 600px;
  max-height: 800px;
  padding: 20px;
  margin: 12px;
  background: #fff;
}
/* The .modal__close class is used in js but is modified '--x' here */
.modal__close--x {
  font-size: 30px; /* this is only because we use unicode for the X in this case */
  position: absolute;
  top: 3px;
  right: 10px;
}
/* As there is no href to avoid the hash being added to the URL when clicked we add a pointer */
/* This 'x' is hidden from screen readers as there is an accessible close button in the modal */
.modal__close--x:hover {
  cursor: pointer;
}
/* Animations */
/* Open */
.modal.modal--show {
  animation: modal-open 0.3s;
}
@keyframes modal-open {
  0%    { opacity: 0; }
  100%  { opacity: 1; }
}
/* Close */
.modal.modal--hide {
  animation: modal-close 0.3s;
}
@keyframes modal-close {
  0%    { opacity: 1; }
  100%  { opacity: 0; }
}