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FIX: HTML Dialog Ignores Size Parameters Without SCRIPT Block

Article ID: 190051

Article Last Modified on 5/11/2006

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 2
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 1

This article was previously published under Q190051

SYMPTOMS

The Dynamic HTML (DHTML) window object provides a showModalDialog method, which creates a dialog box to display an HTML document. The "features" parameter of this method describes how the dialog box is to look and includes dialogHeight and dialogWidth values to indicate the size of the dialog box.

When showModalDialog is called from within DHTML script, the dialog box fails to resize according to the dialogHeight and dialogWidth features parameters.

CAUSE

HTML dialog boxes created by showModalDialog ignore changes to dialogHeight and dialogWidth unless the dialog HTML page contains at least one <SCRIPT> block.

RESOLUTION

Solution 1

Add at least one <SCRIPT> block to the dialog HTML page. This <SCRIPT> block can be empty:

<SCRIPT>
</SCRIPT>

Solution 2

Provide a style for the HTML tag in the HEAD element of the dialog HTML document that specifies the width and height attributes. The following HTML demonstrates this:

<HEAD>

  <STYLE ID="MyDialogStyle" TYPE="text/css">
     HTML {width:400px;
           height:200px;
           top-margin:0;
           bottom-margin:0;
           left-margin:0;
           right-margin:0}
  </STYLE>

</HEAD>

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.

MORE INFORMATION

The following SCRIPT code reproduces this symptom if Dlg.htm is an HTML file with no <SCRIPT> blocks:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

  showModalDialog("dlg.htm","","dialogHeight:50px;dialogWidth:50px");

</SCRIPT>

REFERENCES

For more information about developing Web-based solutions for Microsoft Internet Explorer, visit the following Microsoft Web sites:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie/

http://support.microsoft.com/iep

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