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Opera widths (yet again!)

TheMartian

12-22-03 - 04:49 AM

Opera is driving me nuts, I am trying to get it to actually render a
table the full width of the browser window

sounds easy, but no, Opera and only Opera leaves a 16px margin on the
right edge

I know its a bug in Opera, but does anyone know of anyway round it?

All other current browsers I tested render correctly, and yes that even
includes that nasty IE thing

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Spartanicus

12-22-03 - 04:49 AM

TheMartian wrote:
quote:

>Opera is driving me nuts, I am trying to get it to actually render a
>table the full width of the browser window
>
>sounds easy, but no, Opera and only Opera leaves a 16px margin on the
>right edge
>
>I know its a bug in Opera

Do you really? In the absence of an url demonstrating the problem I'll
hazard a guess that you are experiencing the fact that Opera uses a
default padding on <body>.

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TheMartian

12-22-03 - 04:49 AM

Spartanicus wrote:
quote:

> TheMartian wrote:
>
> 
>
>
> Do you really? In the absence of an url demonstrating the problem I'll
> hazard a guess that you are experiencing the fact that Opera uses a
> default padding on <body>.
>

oops forgot to add the URL to the original post

sol4.net/test.html

this renders right in

Safari
camino/mozilla/firebird
IE (windoze/Mac)

as for the opera bugs, lots of references, with this one being one of
the better ones.

http://www.gjk.dk/~krn/bugs/opera/t...widtherror.html


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Anne van Kesteren

12-22-03 - 04:49 AM

TheMartian wrote:quote:

> sol4.net/test.html

That is a WFM in Opera 7.21


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Spartanicus

12-22-03 - 04:49 AM

TheMartian wrote:
quote:

>
>oops forgot to add the URL to the original post
>
>sol4.net/test.html
>
>this renders right in
>
>Safari
>camino/mozilla/firebird
>IE (windoze/Mac)

Renders identical in IE5.5, Moz 1.5, Opera 7.21 and Opera 7.5p1. Did you
add the padding:0px on the body element later?
quote:

>as for the opera bugs, lots of references, with this one being one of
>the better ones.
>
>http://www.gjk.dk/~krn/bugs/opera/t...widtherror.html

No case being made there that suggests that Opera has more bugs than
other UA's. I suggest that you are having difficulty using CSS, and that
this is the cause of your "problems".

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TheMartian

12-22-03 - 04:49 AM

Spartanicus wrote:
quote:

> TheMartian wrote:
>
> 
>
>
> Renders identical in IE5.5, Moz 1.5, Opera 7.21 and Opera 7.5p1. Did you
> add the padding:0px on the body element later?

I am a Mac user, and have to support Opera 6.03

nope the padding:0 has been there since the begining
quote:

>
> 
>
>
> No case being made there that suggests that Opera has more bugs than
> other UA's. I suggest that you are having difficulty using CSS, and that
> this is the cause of your "problems".
>

Thats not what I am saying, Opera does have its problems, but is not
even close to the worse for CSS pain, that honor stays with IE

that URL taked about one specific Opera issue


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Spartanicus

12-22-03 - 04:49 AM

TheMartian wrote:
quote:

>I am a Mac user, and have to support Opera 6.03

Aha, you could have mentioned that rather relevant info in your OP. What
you are seeing is space reserved for the vertical scrollbar, you can
configure v6 to display the scrollbar permanently IIRC if you don't want
the space.

I hope you are not using tables for layout?

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Re: Opera widths (yet again!)

TheMartian

12-22-03 - 04:49 AM

Spartanicus wrote:
quote:

> TheMartian wrote:
>
> 
>
>
> Aha, you could have mentioned that rather relevant info in your OP. What
> you are seeing is space reserved for the vertical scrollbar, you can
> configure v6 to display the scrollbar permanently IIRC if you don't want
> the space.
>
> I hope you are not using tables for layout?
>

thanks, never would have spotted that one

as for the tables and layout, its table free, only tables are used for
tabular data display

thanks for the help


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