I am using jquery UI's dialog widget to render a modal dialog in my web application. I do this by passing the ID of the desired DOM element into the following function:
var setupDialog = function (eltId) {
$("#" + eltId).dialog({
autoOpen: false,
width: 610,
minWidth: 610,
height: 450,
minHeight: 200,
modal: true,
resizable: false,
draggable: false,
});
};
Everything works just fine in Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. However, in IE 8 when the dialog is opened only the div.ui-dialog-titlebar
is visible -- the div.ui-dialog-contents
are not.
The problem seems to be that while in the modern browsers, the div.ui-dialog-contents
has a specific height set in its style, i.e. after opening the dialog, the resulting HTML is:
<div class="ui-dialog-content ui-widget-content" id="invite-friends-dialog"
style="width: auto; min-height: 198px; height: 448px">...</div>
while in IE8 the height
style attribute is set to zero, and the resulting HTML is:
<div class="ui-dialog-content ui-widget-content" id="invite-friends-dialog"
style="min-height: 0px; width: auto; height: 0px">...</div>
What do I need to do to get the height
(and min-height
) style attributes set correctly?
I found the way to fix this issue was to add this to the config: "autoOpen: false"
Then on document load,
(eg the config height is 200)
I can not reproduce your problem using IE 8.0.7600.16385IC using the following test page. I'd be curious to see how you're showing the dialog. Are you calling the right method:
$(selector).dialog('open');
?Found this suggestion on the jquery forum, which solves my problem (though admittedly unsatisfying because it doesn't solve the underlying bug).
http://forum.jquery.com/topic/setting-dialog-height-in-ie8-does-not-work
The solution is to call .height(‘auto’) after the dialog is created.
Credit: http://norrisshelton.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/ie8-issues-with-jquery-dialog-causes-box-to-have-wrong-height-and-scrollbars/
Worked for me