Problem with OPERA CSS Float:left;

[limelites]

In IE7, FF, Chrome and Safari, everything looks great but in Opera the display of the additional images in my product page looks awful.

This is a site that does attract foreign visitors who do use Opera, so it does matter.

Opera Version 9.64
Platform Vista
Zen Cart 1.3.8a

Site URL is www.limelites.co.uk

Screenshot in FF,IE,SAFARI,CHROME, ETC:

Screenshot in OPERA:

I've noticed that this in my stylesheet will spread the images across the page (even in Opera):

#productAdditionalImages {
width:100%;
float:left;
text-align:center;
}
 
.additionalImages img{
border-left:4px solid #ffffff;
border-right:4px solid #ffffff;
border-top:0px solid #ffffff;
border-bottom:4px solid #ffffff;
}  

The trouble with this though, is that when an ad only has two or three additional images, they're spread evenly across the width of the page instead of nesting closely together.

This is the CSS styling that fits for all browers EXCEPT OPERA:

#productAdditionalImages {
width:auto;
float:left;
text-align:center;
}
 
.additionalImages img{
border-left:4px solid #ffffff;
border-right:4px solid #ffffff;
border-top:0px solid #ffffff;
border-bottom:4px solid #ffffff;
}  

As soon as I put this back into my stylesheet, the additional images nest nicely in all browsers EXCEPT OPERA.......

I've also noticed that taking out the float:left; to give:

#productAdditionalImages {
width:auto;
text-align:center;
}

has the same effect.... it spreads the images across the page in ALL browsers....

What do you think I could replace float:left; with??

Any help appreciated... I'm probably missing something from stylesheet but can't figure it out :-)

[drhowarddrfine]

With Opera, you need to specify a height or width to the containing element or the images, forgot which will do it.

[limelites]

I see that specifying width does spread the images out, but some of my ads have 2 additional images, some have 6 and others have 3, 4 or 5 additional images.

The problem with specifying width is that it's not consistent with the ads.

All other browsers accept width:auto; but Opera doesn't seem to like that.

If I specify width:765px; then it's good for the 6 extra pics but ads with 2 extra pics have the images spread out with a huge space between them.

Any ideas on how to remedy this would be greatly appreciated.

[drhowarddrfine]

Yes, I know. If the individual images are the same width or height, and they appear to be, set one or both of those and it should fix it. It's a known bug in Opera (assuming it is a bug, not sure).

You could try giving the images a border and see if that fixes it without setting the height/width. You could try that with the enclosing element, too, just to see what happpens.

[limelites]

@drhowarddrfine
What do you mean by, "set one or both".... What would you change about the css below?

 
   1. #productAdditionalImages {
   2. width:auto;
   3. float:left;
   4. text-align:center;
   5. }
   6.  
   7. .additionalImages img{
   8. border-left:4px solid #ffffff;
   9. border-right:4px solid #ffffff;
  10. border-top:0px solid #ffffff;
  11. border-bottom:4px solid #ffffff;
  12. }  
 
 

[drhowarddrfine]

Set the height or the width or both to some px. I don't think you wanted to do that in #productAdditionalImages so try it in .additionalImages img. Even if you can't do that, it would be interesting to find out if that fixes it.

It would be interesting to find out if adding a border to #productAdditionalImages fixes the problem, too.

[limelites]

Setting the width to some px; does fix it, but the effect is no good to me because if there are 2 images the width would need to be 250px whereas if there are 4 images then the width would need to be 500px. So, that's why I am using width:auto; which works in every other browser, just not Opera.

Adding width to .additionalImages img has no effect at all on the images because this line refers to the little 'click to enlarge' images underneath those.

I added a border to #productAdditionalImages to test but again, this does nothing to help :-(

I wonder what the problem is here?

[drhowarddrfine]

@limelites
No, no. I meant to the images themselves, not their container.

I wonder what the problem is here?

It's a known issue with Opera. I talk to 4 devs who work there but I don't know if I can reach them over the weekend to ask them about this.

[limelites]

changing the width of the actual images is not a viable option I'm afraid since I use Image Handler to manage image sizes across the site. Besides, I already have hundred and hundreds of images uploaded and can't imagine having to resize them all.

If you can remember to ask your friends who work there then I'd really appreciate it. I bet they would know immediately how to tackle this :-) Thank you for this!

[drhowarddrfine]

I try not to ask them such questions because, obviously, if everyone did, they'd get deluged with such things and wouldn't talk to me anymore. Let's see if one of them responds with help, or just to yell at me. :)

I'm not saying you have to resize the images. I'm saying just set the CSS for the images to some height and/or width. So just add something like this:

.additionalImages img{
width:100px;
}
 

[limelites]

adding width to .additionalImages img{ just affects the 'click to enlarge' image:

From this:

To this:

It has no effect in OPERA... at least not on the main, additional images.

[drhowarddrfine]

That girl is going to drive me crazy.

But setting the width does expand the images rather than overlapping, right?

[limelites]

This is now solved!! It wasn't the CSS that was to blame, it was the PHP.

Specifying the width in the array has cured it and OPERA now displays the additional images exactly the same as all other browsers:

List Box array generation:
    $list_box_contents[$row][$col] = array('params' => 'class="additionalImages centeredContent back"' . ' ' . 'style="width:135px;"',  'text' => "\n      " . $link);  

Thank you for helping me with this.

[drhowarddrfine]

So, can you get me a date with that model?