text and grafics "jump" in Opera

[fj]

When I put the mouse over a link in Opera the paragraph text and two graphic
rules reposition themselves slightly. It doesnt do it in IE7, Netscape or
Firefox. I can't seem to figure out why. Could it be a bug in Opera?
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2qnht/about.html Any info would be
appreciated.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

When I put the mouse over a link in Opera the paragraph text and two graphic
rules reposition themselves slightly. It doesnt do it in IE7, Netscape or
Firefox. I can't seem to figure out why. Could it be a bug in Opera?
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2qnht/about.html Any info would be
appreciated.

Maybe it is the: letter-spacing: 1px;
Try removing that.

Further comments:
1) The purple background on about.html doesn't work well at all.
2. Drop the .9em font size and the Verdana. See:
http://k75s.home.att.net/fontsize.html
3. There is no consistency between pages. The site is disjointed.
4. Don't open new pages in a new tab or window.

 

[John Hosking]

When I put the mouse over a link in Opera the paragraph text and two graphic
rules reposition themselves slightly. It doesnt do it in IE7, Netscape or
Firefox. I can't seem to figure out why. Could it be a bug in Opera?
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2qnht/about.html Any info would be
appreciated.

Just a guess without studying it too much, but I see this in the CSS:

a {
color: #666;
text-decoration: none; }

a:hover {
color: #000;
border-bottom: solid 2px #000; }

I'm guessing Opera exhibits a different behavior because of the lack of
a 2px bottom border without hover. Don't know why FF doesn't, though.