>>Doesn't setting width to 100% work ?
>>IAC the pre tag seems a slightly odd choice. FWIW in most of my modals I use an angular form for the modal-body content - which will give you all of the layout options you can require.....
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>What do you normally use when you want to display long formatted text with tabs and carriage returns? We use ace editor in our application, I can look into using it in that form too, but I thought I need something nice and pre tag seems to work good.

Didn't know where your text comes from. A quick glance at the JPEG looked to me like it was a JSON object and, if so, you could have bound the properties in angular to a 'prettier' layout. That said it appears to be doing the job :-}