Advice needed for layout

Im designing a page with a pretty standard header, sidebar,
maincontent, footer style layout.
I designed it so the footer is always displayed correctly as
everything is contained within a div which stretches across the main
content if it needs to.

Problem is in opera Version 7.11 you get a border at the bottom of the
main content area of approx 1em in size which I do not want there. In
IE6 its about 1px in size which is fine as you can barely see it.

Have a look, in both opera and IE if you can!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davidp.hopkins/test.htm

biffta (AT) hotmail (DOT) com (David) wrote in
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Im designing a page with a pretty standard header, sidebar,
maincontent, footer style layout.
I designed it so the footer is always displayed correctly as
everything is contained within a div which stretches across the main
content if it needs to.

Problem is in opera Version 7.11 you get a border at the bottom of the
main content area of approx 1em in size which I do not want there. In
IE6 its about 1px in size which is fine as you can barely see it.

Have a look, in both opera and IE if you can!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davidp.hopkins/test.htm

It's gone (or at least not visible) in Opera 7.22.

Note that in K-Meleon (using Mozilla 1.5), the border of the login box
overlaps the content text.

David wrote:

Problem is in opera Version 7.11 you get a border at the bottom of the
main content area of approx 1em in size which I do not want there. In
IE6 its about 1px in size which is fine as you can barely see it.

I've had the same problem some time ago. It seems that sometimes Opera
adds a margin were it's not supposed to be. You could try it with CSS
and set the margin-bottom of the last paragraph to 0. Putting an empty
div after the last paragraph fixes it too, but is a very bad workaround.

The easiest solution: ignore it. I haven't checked recent Opera but if
it's gone there then you shouldn't care about anymore. People using
Opera 7.xx are able to update their browser and most likely they'll do.

Micha