Posted by Nik Coughlin on 05/10/06 02:06

Spartanicus wrote:
> "Nik Coughlin" <nrkn.com@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I've run into the Opera mirror margins bug as described here:
>>
>> http://www.quirksmode.org/bugreports/archives/2006/01/mirror_margins.html
>>
>> 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?
>
> Proviso: I haven't checked if this can be classified as an Opera bug
> or not.

Hi Spartanicus,

It doesn't occur in Opera < 8 or Opera > 8 so I'd say it's a fairly safe bet
that it's a bug.

> The test case needlessly abuses floats, there is no need to float the
> list items, there may also be a way to avoid floating the list. Remove
> the floats on the list item, replace that with text-align and the
> 'problem' goes away. The list is floated to get it to shrink wrap
> around the list items, that should definitely be ditched if the
> shrink wrapping isn't required, and other options should be looked at
> if it is.

I don't know about the test case (I didn't really look at the code) but my
page needs the floats (I believe so anyhow, I could be wrong) for a number
of reasons:

http://www.nrkn.com/ia/

I think I'm just going to let it slide, it works perfectly in Firefox 1.07+,
Konqueror, Camino, Opera <8, Opera 9, Safari 1.2+, IE5+.

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