I would like to open a Contact form as modal, but the RSJoomla form extension does not include left margins or paddings for a form's title and introductory text. It assumes the form's container already contains some white space. See the Submit a Bug Report link on the bottom right of scnylab.org/j40/index.php/contact . It opens the bug reporting form as modal, but the title and intro text need padding. The generic Contact form, by contrast, is not modal ( scnylab.org/j40/index.php/contact ) but has plenty of white space to the left of its title because it is built into the template. Thank you in advance for your kind assistance.

Actually, it was easy-peasy after publishing the form as a module (all major form component vendors have plugins to publish their forms as modules).

There are a couple wrinkles: (1) the Captcha doesn't appear (Can't click Submit if the Captcha is mandatory), and (2) the Submit button closes the modal window, regardless of whether the form is filled in correctly or contains errors.

You only see the highlighted errors if you re-open the form by clicking on the "Submit a Bug Report" link that opened the modal window the first time. Similarly, even if the form is filled in correctly, you don't see the automated acknowledgement ("Thank you for submitting... Here is what we received... We will get back to you shortly.")unless you re-click on the link opening the modal window.

As attempted workarounds, I disabled the Captcha and added the command on-closed="alert('Thank you for...');", but the latter never popped up. So, I tried to force the modal window to stay open and to disregard the "finality" of the Submit button.That only worked partially. The Close Modal button doesn't close the window but the Submit button still does. However, the close-on-outside-click="false"
and keyboard-navigation="false" commands do indeed work. Oh well, the form will remain non-modal.