August 19, 2001 - The Dialog Box's Resizeability

Yehuda Shiran August 19, 2001
The Dialog Box's Resizeability
Tips: August 2001

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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By default, dialog boxes are not resizeable. You can change this behavior by simply setting the resizable parameter to yes. Pop up a resizeable window created with this invocation:

window.showModalDialog('010818.html','','resizable:yes');
Play around with it and prove to yourself that indeed the window is resizeable. The possible values of the resizable property are: yes, no, 1, 0, on, and off. Their semantics are intuitive.

For more on modal and modeless dialog boxes, go to Column 90, Modal and Modeless Dialog Boxes.