You're both absolutely correct about having valid code and css as the first step to trouble shooting a website issue. With that said, I am almost 100 % sure that the issue on Opera is not caused by the html/css errors when its validated. However I corrected the few issues that I should have fixed a long time ago and now the css validates 100%, but unfortunately I have never been able to get the html to validate 100% because of this code:
Code:
<li class="imatm" style="width:63px;"><a href="(CGIVAR)seo_base_url(/CGIVAR)/page--Shopping-Cart--cart.html" style="height:29px;"><span class="imea imeam"><span></span></span>CART</a>
<div class="imsc"><div class="imsubc" style="width:219px;top:0px;left:-154px;">
<ul id="cartcontainer">
(CGIGET TYPE="SUB" VALUE="ste_cart_dropdown")
(CGIGET TYPE="SUB" VALUE="ste_cart_view_checkout")
</ul></div></div></li>
You will see that the opened li is actually closed, but what happens is that when the scripts all run the code
CGIGET TYPE="SUB" VALUE="ste_cart_dropdown")
(CGIGET TYPE="SUB" VALUE="ste_cart_view_checkout"): is replaced with
"<div id="minicartempty">
Your cart is currently empty
</div>"
and that causes the error because its not correct to use a div inside of a li.
Obviously the drop down menu code was not designed to work like this. I have put a mini shopping cart display into the menu and it causes the validator to show an error, but it works correctly in every browser I've ever tested so I just left it alone.
I know there is a correct way to do this, possibly using a drop down hover box, but i have never been able to recreate the way the drop down shopping cart works when I take the cart code out of the menu code. Even though the sites html/css was all done by hand except for the menu, i am certainly not an expert in any of this.
I am going to keep working on getting the menu to validate, but the issue with Opera is still something I dont understand. I tried taking the links off the images on the right of the homepage and it fixes the error. So I really think there has to be something small I can do to the links to correct the problem. Check it out
Homepage but without links
I appreciate your help guys.
Ali