Site doesn't display properly in Opera

My company website was designed using IExplorer. I just downloaded the 
latest verison of Opera and my site does not display properly. The site 
relies very heavily on css stylsheets for placement of images, and text. In 
IE it looks perfect, but when I move to Opera, part of the text is hidden 
behind an image. Is there something concerning css and Opera that I should 
be aware of? 

Lee Harvey scribed:

>Kevin wrote:
>> My company website was designed using IExplorer. I just downloaded the
>> latest verison of Opera and my site does not display properly. The
>> site relies very heavily on css stylsheets for placement of images,
>> and text. In IE it looks perfect, but when I move to Opera, part of
>> the text is hidden behind an image. Is there something concerning css
>> and Opera that I should be aware of?
>
>As Andrew hints at, while viewing your pages in Opera, right-click on the 
>page, and select "Validate", or press [Ctrl]+[Alt]+V.  This will
effectively 
>validate the HTML markup in your pages.
>
>Now, to validate your stylesheets (CSS), visit: 
>http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/  You can either submit the URL, upload 
>the CSS file, or copy-paste the CSS directly into the W3C.org form.
>
>After you fix any HTML and CSS validation errors, both IE and Opera should 
>display nearly the same -- assuming the JavaScript doesn't sniff the 
>user-agent and apply any browser-specific functionality.
>
It's also helpful to write one's pages using a strict doctype (w/o errors)
to prevent triggering quirks mode in all browsers.
-- 

Kevin wrote:
> My company website was designed using IExplorer. I just downloaded the
> latest verison of Opera and my site does not display properly. The
> site relies very heavily on css stylsheets for placement of images,
> and text. In IE it looks perfect, but when I move to Opera, part of
> the text is hidden behind an image. Is there something concerning css
> and Opera that I should be aware of?

As Andrew hints at, while viewing your pages in Opera, right-click on the 
page, and select "Validate", or press [Ctrl]+[Alt]+V.  This will
effectively 
validate the HTML markup in your pages.

Now, to validate your stylesheets (CSS), visit: 
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/  You can either submit the URL, upload 
the CSS file, or copy-paste the CSS directly into the W3C.org form.

After you fix any HTML and CSS validation errors, both IE and Opera should 
display nearly the same -- assuming the JavaScript doesn't sniff the 
user-agent and apply any browser-specific functionality.

HTH 

Kevin scribed:

>One other question on the subject. How does Netscape compare in regards to 
>these issues? I plan to rework the site so it displays correctly in the 
>"better browsers" and was wondering if I should download and test
using 
>Netscape as well?
>
>Will also, likely, put some text on the homepage, directing visitors to use

>another browser?
>
>"Kevin" <none@email.com> wrote in message 
>news:ftvcla$23g$1@news.opera.com...
>> My company website was designed using IExplorer. I just downloaded the

>> latest verison of Opera and my site does not display properly. The site

>> relies very heavily on css stylsheets for placement of images, and
text. 
>> In IE it looks perfect, but when I move to Opera, part of the text is 
>> hidden behind an image. Is there something concerning css and Opera
that I 
>> should be aware of?
>> 
You ask some good questions that would be better answered if posed to the
crowd at alt.www.webmaster.
-- 

Yikes, code validator found 31 errors on my homepage - mostly related to 
open <font> and <div> elements. Also included a few for color
atribute..."an 
attribute value must be a literal unless it contains only name 
characters"...and the following..."document type does not allow
element "H3" 
here; missing one of "APPLET", "OBJECT", "MAP",
"IFRAME", "BUTTON" 
start-tag." Why does it not recognize <H3> as an element??

I haven't checked the CSS codes yet, but I can only imagine.  The truley sad 
part is, the site was created from a template from a large site hosting 
company. I tweaked the site that is active now, but I tried the
"original" 
as produced by the online site creator that I have up on a mirror site and 
it does not display properly in Opera either. And to boot, when I called 
tech support regarding an issue I was having accessing their site, I was 
told, on multiple occasions, by multiple support staff, that I should use a 
browser other than IE.

"Kevin" <none@email.com> wrote in message 
news:ftvcla$23g$1@news.opera.com...
> My company website was designed using IExplorer. I just downloaded the 
> latest verison of Opera and my site does not display properly. The site 
> relies very heavily on css stylsheets for placement of images, and text. 
> In IE it looks perfect, but when I move to Opera, part of the text is 
> hidden behind an image. Is there something concerning css and Opera that I

> should be aware of?
>