[WEB4LIB] Opera question

[Thomas M G Bennett]

Of course there are several possibilities including your Opera settings:

Enable Author CSS
Check the Author CSS box only if you want Opera to give precedence to the
CSS rules contained in the document.
Check the User CSS box only if you want Opera to give precedence to your
external CSS file.
 If both the Author CSS and User CSS are enabled, then the CSS from each
will cascade, in the order specified in the CSS recommendations.

Enable document mode default
Enabling document mode default overrides your choices of user settings and
allows author specified fonts, colors and backgrounds to take precedence.

Enable tables
Enable Tables - enables the (formatted) display of tables. DISABLING this
option may conflict with certain background images in documents.


Also from Opera's site:
"Håkon Wium Lie, co-author of: Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web
and the person who proposed the concept of CSS is Opera Software's Chief
Technology Officer. He came to Opera from the W3C, the organization that
determines the specifications for the Web."
This suggests to me that Opera is probably correctly interpreting your CSS
where the other browsers may not be properly interpreting CSS.

The main difference I noted between Opera 5.11, Netscape 4.77 and IE 5.0 is
that from your Bobby image on down is centered in IE & Netscape and left
justified in Opera and it appears that your last center tag (from the source
code) is closed above this image.  I am using all three browsers full screen
at display setting of 1600x1200.


You may want to look at the source of
http://www.opera.com/support/resources/20000503.html where Opera uses forms
in a table with different color backgrounds.


Thomas



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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Drew, Bill
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 11:22 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Opera question


I am having a strange problem that only shows up in Opera when viewing our
library webpages.  If you use Opera please take a look at our page at:
http://www.morrisville.edu/library.  Can anyone tell me why the text or form
overlaps the background image?  I am trying to use the same look for our
logo as on our main page for the college. I have tried all sorts of
variations on style settings and on align and valign for the table cells.
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