I knew that the navbar was a little broken in Opera but I had no idea why. Also, I didn’t care, given that nobody I know uses Opera, except to test their websites for compatibility (the nav essentially worked; it just looked bad).

Well, this week Opera started to give away its browser for free (where before they had given people the option of a free browser with ads built in, or a pay version with no ads). Since it is pretty slick (although I still prefer Firefox), I expect the usage #s to go through the roof, and so decided I had to fix this.

I discovered (after posting a question and receiving assistance in the opera forums) that I was missing the following from my stylesheet:

form {margin:0;}

Now, far be it for me to be picky, but what the hell is form doing with a margin attribute? I thought form was a non-display tag…am I so wrong? The form tag, to me, defines the behaviour of a group of form elements. If I wanted to wrap it in a margin, I’d use a span, div, p or any of a dozen hacks.

Anyway, it looks good in Opera now. And you may as well download Opera since it’s free, and it isn’t Microsoft. Microsoft suck.

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