why are successive 'thickbox' pop-up windows confined to the height / width of the predecessor ?

[William Peck]

I am using (jquery ?) thickbox for pop-up screens. I've found that successive thickbox screens are confined to the area of the predecessor thickbox. is there a way around that ?

I have thickbox set at height=400, width=400, so I've found I'm limited to that size or smaller for a successive thickbox pop-up, and I have a situation where I'd like the size to be outside of the originating thickbox.

Here's the originating thickbox

   
	<c:url value="error_summary.htm" var="errorsURL">
		<c:param name="ERRORID" value="${detail.errorsId}"/>
		<c:param name="height" value="400"/>
		<c:param name="width" value="400"/>
		<c:param name="TB_iframe" value="true"/>
		<c:param name="modal" value="true"/>
	</c:url>
<td ><a class='thickbox' href="<c:out value="${errorsURL}" escapeXml="true"/>"><fmt:formatNumber type="number">${detail.errorCount}</fmt:formatNumber></a></td>	

 

And here's the subsequent thickbox

    
	<c:url value="error_detail.htm" var="errorsURL">
		<c:param name="ERRORID" value="${errors.errorsId}"/>
		<c:param name="ERRORDESCR" value="${errors.errorDescr}"/>
		<c:param name="height" value="350"/>
		<c:param name="width" value="800"/>
		<c:param name="TB_iframe" value="true"/>
		<c:param name="modal" value="true"/>
	</c:url>
	<td ><a class='thickbox' href="<c:out value="${errorsURL}" escapeXml="true"/>">${errors.errorDescr}</a></td>	

Even though I have the width set to 800, it's chopped off at 400

[Bear Bibeault]

Since jQuery and its plugins are client-side libraries, it'd be best to post this in the HTML/JavaScript forum and with the JSP markup already rendered. In other words, show what's sent to the browser -- not your JSP source code.

[William Peck]

Ok, Bear, can you move it ?

[William Peck]

here is what is rendered.

calling the original thickbox

<td >2,033</td>

calling the 2nd thickbox

   
  <tr><td >1,305</td>
         <td ><a class='thickbox'  rel="nofollow">MED_COV Dup Found</a></td>	
    <td></td>
  </tr>
 

[Bear Bibeault]

As thickbox is deprecated, I'm not familiar with how it works. If it creates the "sub" dialogs inside the originals, then yes, a child cannot display outside the borders of its parent.

You might want to investigate alternative (supported) dialog plugins.

[William Peck]

Bear, ok on it being deprecated, but I'm not in a position to swap it out.

I posted this separately so will close this one out.