I'm using the jQuery UI dialog to present content in a new iFrame. Everything works out great except that the parent window of the dialog is getting a horizontal scrollbar while the dialog is displayed (IE8). I've tracked down the problem to the <html> element within the iFrame being interpreted as very wide by the browser, even though the only content on the page in the iFrame in a 580px div.
I've tried adding CSS to the HTML and BODY tags within the iFrame (e.g. width: 98% or width: 600px;)... none of which seems to have any impact.
The code for opening the dialog is below. Any suggestions?
$("a[providerId]").click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var $this = $(this);
var $width = 600;
var $height = 400;
$('<iframe id="companyDetail" class="companyDetail" style="padding: 0px;" src="' + this.href + '" />').dialog({
title: $this.attr('title'),
autoOpen: true,
width: $width,
height: $height,
modal: true,
resizable: false,
autoResize: true,
overlay: {
opacity: 0.5,
background: "black"
}
}).width($width).height($height);
});
UPDATE: Check out these demos where I got the code to see what I am talking about (in IE8): http://elijahmanor.com/demos/jqueryuidialogiframe/index.html