This is fixed in SVN.  It will be available with 1.6rc6 tomorrow.

On Jan 24, 1:47 pm, Kostrowsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Posted first on the jQuery group.
>
> Hi,
>
> Just want to report an odd bug, using the UI dialog widget, in IE7
> only:
>
> How I create the dialog:
>
> ++++++
> $('#' + popupId).dialog({
>                                 autoOpen:               true,
>                                 resizable :     false,
>                                 bgiframe :              true,
>                                 position :              [pos['x'], pos
> ['y']],
>                                 width:          'auto',
>                                 height:         'auto',
>                                 minHeight:              100,
>                                 minWidth:               100,
>                                 draggable :     false,
>                                 stack :                 true,
>                                 show :          'slideDown("slow")',
>                                 hide :          'slideUp("slow")',
>                                 close:          function(event, ui)
> {setLinkText(elementId, event, ui)}
>                         });
> ++++++
>
> The dialog markup:
>
> ++++++
>
> <form id="map-params">
> <table class="popup" id="popup-3">
>   <tr>
>     <td><input type="checkbox" name="categories" value="1"
> checked="checked" /></td>
>     <td><img src="http://localhost/images/people_20_20.png";
> height="20px" width="20px" /></td>
>     <td>Services&nbsp;à&nbsp;la&nbsp;personne</td>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>     <td><input type="checkbox" name="categories" value="2"
> checked="checked" /></td>
>     <td><img src="http://localhost/images/car_20_20.png"; height="20px"
> width="20px" /></td>
>     <td>Automobile</td>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>     <td><input type="checkbox" name="categories" value="3"
> checked="checked" /></td>
>     <td><img src="http://localhost/images/sport_20_20.png";
> height="20px" width="20px" /></td>
>     <td>Sport</td>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>     <td><input type="checkbox" name="categories" value="4"
> checked="checked" /></td>
>     <td><img src="http://localhost/images/computer_20_20.png";
> height="20px" width="20px" /></td>
>     <td>Informatique</td>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>     <td><input type="checkbox" name="categories" value="5"
> checked="checked" /></td>
>     <td><img src="http://localhost/images/house_20_20.png";
> height="20px" width="20px" /></td>
>     <td>Votre chez-soi</td>
>   </tr>
>   <tr><td colspan="3"><a id="all-checkboxes" href="javascript:void
> (0);">Select all</a></td></tr>
> </table>
> </form>
>
> ++++++
>
> In IE7 (firefox spits out the dialog without hesitation), the code
> breaks at creation of the dialog: the dialog is not shown.  Further
> investigation using Visual Web Dev indicates that at line 1048 of
> jquery.js (v1.3.1), an invalid value is set (minHeight = "-47px"), a
> negative value.  May be it's proper within the framework, but IE
> chokes on it at odd times.
>
> In this case, I just have to remove the last row of the table:
> <tr><td colspan="3"><a id="all-checkboxes" href="javascript:void
> (0);">Select all</a></td></tr>
>
> And it works... sometimes. When it does not, the minHeight value is
> again a negative value, -23px.  I then remove another table row, and
> it's pretty much stable from then on.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> +++++++
> Some more info, also posted on the jQuery group:
>
>  I'm fine with negative values, but in the line in question, it's the
> property minHeight that is set to either -47px or -23px.  Quite a
> minHeight!  It seems to me the UI framework has some difficulty
> calculating the actual height of the elements, or positions (I know it
> has to do with the fact that the rendering parameters of elements
> differ from browser to browser).
>
> I've read many posts about the 'auto' height parameter, and it seems
> at fault here.  If I get the actual height of the dialog element, add
> a few pixels, and inject the value in the dialog creation code, I can
> safely create dialogs as high as I want.  The width parameter may be
> set to 'auto', or any value, the dialog box always respect the width
> of the element.  The difficulty with injecting the actual height is
> that the value can only be retrieved once, at the very first use of
> the dialog.  Afterwards, the height value (using $(#elementId).height
> ()) is zero.  But wait!  Injecting zero + a few pixels as the height
> dialog parameter value is good enough!  I suppose the jQuery coders
> have put a safeguard against setting a value below the actual size of
> the element.  IE and FF agree to fit the content to its size.  For
> Firefox to comply with the actual height though, you do need to remove
> the minHeight parameter.  IE doesn't care.
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