Invisible Modal Dialogs in IE 7

faseidl · 2009-01-20 00:38:22

Modal dialogs in IE 7 are displaying as invisible . The dialogs are functioning (i.e., I can tab from field to field, enter data, and submit the dialog) but I can't seen anything except the caret moving as I type.

I am using the latest trunk version (rev 1153).

Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas on how to debug this?

Thanks.

faseidl · 2009-01-20 22:26:16

Here's some more data... after much debugging, I determined how to fix the problem (but I'm not sure I understand why it works.)

Everythins works fine in IE (and everywhere else) when the page containing the Xinha control uses this doctype:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

Dialog boxes fail in IE (but nowhere else) when the doctype is changed to this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

My guess is that smart browsers know how to find the standard 4.01 Transitional DTD, but less smart browsers (i.e., IE) need to be explicitly told where to find it.

gogo · 2009-01-21 00:42:09

The first example is trigering "Standards Mode", while the last example is triggering "Quirks Mode". Please post this as a bug in the tracker.

faseidl · 2009-01-21 11:44:34

Ah, thanks for the pointer.

I reopened #1176 with additional details:
http://xinha.webfactional.com/ticket/1176

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Invisible Modal Dialogs in IE 7

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Re: Invisible Modal Dialogs in IE 7

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Re: Invisible Modal Dialogs in IE 7

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Re: Invisible Modal Dialogs in IE 7

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