diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 1f3548dd7c8ef61c6c616fb9bce907539d9f5b63..738762832106924bc7f0b904ca67a35db6a69c81 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ minerva (15.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
     project did not allow to change other project details (#996)
   * Bug fix: when multi extension did not contain species type list import of
     SBML crashed
+  * Bug fix: when content of element popover is too wide the scrollbar is
+    visible (#1269)
 
  -- Piotr Gawron <piotr.gawron@uni.lu>  Thu, 18 Jun 2020 16:00:00 +0200
 
diff --git a/frontend-js/src/main/css/global.css b/frontend-js/src/main/css/global.css
index 2bb316b767eef5fbca5afab8adaa327f8970a299..8fa09db39b20d95cc1d0d1a2e519efb4e2d241a5 100644
--- a/frontend-js/src/main/css/global.css
+++ b/frontend-js/src/main/css/global.css
@@ -1112,6 +1112,7 @@ a.adminLink:hover {
 }
 
 .popover-body {
+    max-width: 795px;
     display: inline-block;
     overflow: auto;
     max-height: 80vh;