Posts made by wpcoe

Oh, well. I guess it'll just be another of life's unknown mysteries. LOL!

I've also been testing Vivaldi as an option and it seems to support a few more of the Opera 12 features I like, such as a progress bar/data in the address bar (as well as a discrete search bar in the address bar).

One feature I sorely miss on both Opera 37 and Vivaldi is the "fit to width" option of Opera 12. Too many forums allow w-i-d-e pics to be embedded in posts necessitating left-right scrolling to read a thread. "Fit to width" handles that problem nicely.

you probably disabled flag for search box
opera://flags/#search-box-in-address-bar

Nope. That is "enabled"

What version of Opera do you have there?

Per the opening post: "Both my desktop computer and the Yoga have v.37.0.2178.43..."

You mean tab preview? It seems to be working here.

No, within this forum, above the "Write comment" box is a "Preview" link. It works for me in Opera 12, but not in Opera 37.

Yes. You can do it with the mouse right click menu and keyboard shortcuts. I don't know what the latter is by default as I changed mine but it is there.

"Paste and Go" only appears/works in the address bar itself for me. It does not work in the search box in the address bar -- it's not an option as a right-click or as <ctrl+shift+v> when the cursor is in the search box.

Settings > Browser > User Interface > "Enable search box in the address bar"

That's just it, on my desktop computer it's not listed as an option:

But, on my notebook it is an option:

Another oddity: Using Opera 37, the Preview function doesn't work in this forum, but with Opera 12, it does? What kind of sorcery is that?

Now that I have a high-resolution displays on my desktop, laptop and tablet, I've been gravitating away from Opera 12.x as my preferred browser and finding Opera 37 more appealing. There are a few features from Opera 12 that seem missing, but that might just be my unfamiliarity as to how to configure Opera 37. e.g. I dearly miss the "Fit to Width" option on the Zoom menu.

I finally installed Opera 37 on my notebook (a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro, if that matters) and found a "missing" feature on the Settings page: "Enable search box in the address bar." I use that feature a lot. Both my desktop computer and the Yoga have v.37.0.2178.43, but my desktop doesn't have that option. Is there a way to get that on my desktop?

Another feature I miss is "Paste and Go" in the search box in the address bar. Is that available in Opera 37?

(Is there a way to edit the thread title to add the word "SOLVED"?)

I found the problem: user error, as usual.

In the link to the CSS style sheet in the document header, for some reason, included a reference to screen:

link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css" media="screen"

That apparently applies everything in the stylesheet to just the screen view, and not to print output, which makes sense. WIth that screen reference and lacking a separate stylesheet for print output, the default Opera font is serif. When I remove the media="screen" from the link, it works as I wanted/expected.

Sorry for the bother!

I've never noticed this before, but when I print a web page I wrote, it doesn't print in the same font it displays with. The relevant CSS element is simply "body {font-family: sans-serif; background-color:#fff980;}" and the web page displays in Opera with what looks like Arial, but when I print the page (or even Print Preview) it uses a serif font (looks like Times New Roman?)

How can I specify within Opera and/or within the CSS style sheet to use the same sans-serif font when printing?