FIX: HTML Dialog Ignores Size Parameters Without <SCRIPT> Block

ID: Q190051

The information in this article applies to:

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 this to be a bug in the Microsoft products 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, please see the MSDN Web Workshop:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/default.asp

Additional query words: 


Keywords          : kbIE400bug kbIE401bug kbWebBrowser kbIE401sp1bug kbIE500fix kbIEdp1bug 
Version           : WINDOWS:4.0,4.01,4.01 SP1,5.0dp1
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: April 9, 1999