Posted by Neredbojias on 05/09/06 05:49

To further the education of mankind, "Nik Coughlin" <nrkn.com@gmail.com>
vouchsafed:

> Hi, I've run into the Opera mirror margins bug as described here:
>
> http://www.quirksmode.org/bugreports/archives/2006/01/mirror_margins.ht
> ml
>
> It's been fixed in Opera 9 but it still produces an ugly gap in my
> layout in Opera 8. I know it's a small proportion of the market but I
> am a pedant.
>
> The "fix" listed at the page above doesn't work for me, it's not
> really a fix and it creates its own issues.
>
> Does anyone know how to either:
>
> Serve CSS to just Opera < 9 *without* browser sniffing as I don't
> consider it reliable enough, something like the * html hack but for
> Opera rather than IE
>
> or:
>
> Work around this bug?

I don't see any "bug" in Opera 8.54. The bottom margin and the following
top margin simply collapse into one another; if the bottom margin is
greater than the top margin, its height will establish the spacing,
otherwise the top margin's height will.

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Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.

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