Managing Dialogs in Custom Master Pages

We discuss styling dialogs in the CSS chapter, but you should also consider how to position dialogs when you create new master pages, such as how users will interact with dialogs on anonymous sites and how you manage the appearance of new DIV or table elements in dialogs. A prime example of this is where I deployed a custom master page not long after SharePoint 2010 was officially released. The site was an anonymous site and I’d hidden the ribbon and made some other changes to the master page. On the eve of deployment, I suddenly realized I hadn’t tested the final updates in Firefox. I’d successfully tested the site in Internet Explorer versions, but not Firefox. Sure enough, as soon as I attempted to open a dialog in Firefox, I ended up with a minimized dialog, as shown in Figure 17.86.

Figure 17.86. Testing dialogs in customized SharePoint 2010 master pages.

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