#4437 closed bug (wontfix)

Opened April 06, 2009 11:46AM UTC

Closed November 08, 2009 04:31AM UTC

Last modified January 26, 2014 06:18PM UTC

dialog width:auto works incorrectly in IE6/7

Reported by: snobo Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: 1.8
Component: ui.dialog Version: 1.7.1
Keywords: tab width title Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

When setting the Dialog's width to 'auto', in IE7, the dialog itself is correctly sized to fit the contents, but on first load the titlebar and the separator line above the buttons appear shrunk to the title text length; if you start resizing the dialog, they immediately acquire the width of the dialog.

In IE6, the dialog fills the whole screen width.

Demo: http://tmp.ahlers.com/test/bimv/timesheet.html

Also reported at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui/browse_thread/thread/edcbfc05b89b695e/2cd41477147c725b?lnk=gst&q=snobo#2cd41477147c725b

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Change History (10)

Changed April 06, 2009 12:35PM UTC by rdworth comment:1

milestone: TBD → 1.8

Changed June 05, 2009 05:58AM UTC by nghianghesi comment:2

A work around solution: reformat ui css like this

.ui-dialog .ui-dialog-titlebar { padding: .5em 0em .3em 0em; position: relative; width: 100%}

.ui-dialog .ui-dialog-title { float: left; margin: .1em .2em .1em 1em; }

Changed June 05, 2009 06:02AM UTC by nghianghesi comment:3

Replying to [comment:2 nghianghesi]:

A work around solution: reformat ui css like this .ui-dialog .ui-dialog-titlebar { padding: .5em 0em .3em 0em; position: relative; width: 100%} .ui-dialog .ui-dialog-title { float: left; margin: .1em .2em .1em 1em; }

Sorry, it doesn't work

Changed July 22, 2009 06:15PM UTC by ulysses2r comment:4

I have used the following workaround for ttlebar width on IE7:

// create the dialog as usual
$(popup).dialog({
	bgiframe: true,
	modal: true,
	height: 'auto',
	width: 'auto'
});

// adjust titlebar width mannualy - Workaround for IE7 titlebar width bug
$(popup.parentNode).find('.ui-dialog-titlebar').each(
	function() {
		$(this).width($(popup).width());
	}
)

dunno about IE6

Changed August 06, 2009 02:03PM UTC by nelis comment:5

Also found in 1.7.2 using IE8

The first proposed workaround didn't work.

The second is not completely accurate

Btw. I found different results when using localhost vs <my machine name> on my development machine (IIS 5). The localhost version didn't suffer from this problem. I have no explanation for this behavior (yet)

Changed August 07, 2009 01:34PM UTC by nelis comment:6

Replying to [comment:5 nelis]:

Btw. I found different results when using localhost vs <my machine name> on my development machine (IIS 5). The localhost version didn't suffer from this problem. I have no explanation for this behavior (yet)

The difference is due to IE8 compatibility view settings. My machine name is seen as part of the intranet and the compatibility setting 'Display intranet sites in Compatibility View' is on by default.

So this issue does relate to IE7 (or IE8 in compatibility mode)

Changed August 13, 2009 07:12PM UTC by mmartineau comment:7

Replying to [comment:4 ulysses2r]:

I have used the following workaround for ttlebar width on IE7: 
> // create the dialog as usual
> $(popup).dialog({
> 	bgiframe: true,
> 	modal: true,
> 	height: 'auto',
> 	width: 'auto'
> });
> 
> // adjust titlebar width mannualy - Workaround for IE7 titlebar width bug
> $(popup.parentNode).find('.ui-dialog-titlebar').each(
> 	function() {
> 		$(this).width($(popup).width());
> 	}
> )
>
dunno about IE6

This worked a little better for me (immediately after dialog is opened):

$popup.dialog('option', 'width', $(popup).parent().width());

Changed November 08, 2009 04:31AM UTC by scottgonzalez comment:8

resolution: → wontfix
status: new → closed

Dialog's don't support auto width. The docs state that the option only accepts a number, which will be used for a pixel size. See jquery-ui-dev thread for a discussion about why we won't support auto width.

Changed May 07, 2013 12:08PM UTC by scottgonzalez comment:9

#9275 is a duplicate of this ticket.

Changed January 26, 2014 06:18PM UTC by scottgonzalez comment:10

#9772 is a duplicate of this ticket.