The Document Window

The title of the document you are viewing is displayed here. If no title is provided for the document, the address is used as the title.

The Document

A document consists of text (often with graphics) and links to other documents, graphics, sound files, video clips, etc.
Links are emphasized by showing in a different colour from the rest of the text, or by having a border.

You can also choose to display them in other ways. If you click with the right mouse button in a document window, a menu will be displayed. The menu is related to where in the window you click. If you click on a graphic, you will see the graphics menu, if you click on a link, you will see the link menu, and if you click on neither of these you will see a default menu.

You can scroll the document using the scroll bard to the right and beneath the window. You can also scroll using the keyboard (arrow keys, PageUp, PageDown , HOME and END). If you never use the scroll bars you can turn them off with CTRL-F7. Opera remembers whether the scroll bars are on or off when you save the window setup under "Save Window Settings" in the Preferences Menu . In addition you can configure the windows to start up without these bars as default.

Progress/history

This field is used for showing the progress of loading, and also history and scaling.
This field can be turned off with CTRL-F8. Opera remembers whether this is on or off when the window setup is saved. In addition the windows can be configured to start without this field as default.

- Stop
This button is used to stop the transfer of a document. A transfer can also be stopped by clicking on a link in the document while you are loading it. In addition you can also use the ESCAPE key (often only labelled ESC) to stop the loading of a document.

- - - Graphics Control
By clicking on this button you can control whether graphics should be loaded and displayed, only loaded graphics should be displayed or no graphics should be loaded and displayed. The status is displayed on the button itself. If there is a red cross on the button, no images will be loaded or displayed. If there is a green cross on the button, only loaded images are displayed. If there is no cross over the button all figures will be loaded and displayed. The status can also be changed using the 'g' key or CTRL + F12 on the keyboard.

- - Document Settings

The multi-colour button toggles between the document's font and colour settings, and your own. This comes in very handy if the author of the web page was less skilled in his design and made it barely legible. This is often the case with light fonts on a dark background, textured backgrounds, use of illegible fonts, an abuse of colours so you can't make out the document links, or just a bad layout. One click sets the page to your preferences, making it perfectly legible. The shortcut for this feature is CTRL+G.

Opera also toggles through your CSS settings, enabling or disabling any style sheets applied to the document. More settings can be chosen from via the Document Appearance settings under Preferences.

Document loading
This indicator shows much of the currently document to be retrieved has been loaded. If the size is known, the progress is displayed in percentages, otherwise the number of bytes or kilobytes (a unit for quantities of data) that have been loaded . The document can contain graphics, sound and other elements - the progress of loading these is displayed by the next indicator.

Graphics loading
Two numbers are shown here - the one to the right shows how many extra elements (normally figures) have been found in the document. The one to the left shows how many have already been loaded.

Generic loading
Here is displayed how much data has been retrieved in connection with loading the document - this includes the document itself, all figures, background and even video clips etc.

Transfer speed
This indicator shows the current transfer speed of the document. If it drops to below 150b/s, you know you're heading for a long load period.

Time elapsed since loading
In addition to the speed, we have also added an indicator that shows the time elapsed since first calling up the document.

Progress text
Here the loading status is displayed - whether the program is connecting to a server or loading data.

History list
Here you can see the document address that is being displayed. By choosing the arrow next to the address you can display the titles of the documents you have retrieved earlier. If you select one of these addresses and then press the Return key, you can quickly retrieve the chosen document again. You can also enter addresses directly by typing them into the field. You select the number of documents to be remembered in the window history via Generic preferences.

Scaling / Zoom
Opera can scale the complete contents of a document. You can also choose to only scale the text. Here you can also choose font and colours. Opera can scale documents from 20 - 1000%. You can type in the percentage directly or choose from a list. You can also use the keyboard for scaling by pressing the '+' key on the number pad you increase the scaling by 10%. Likewise if you use the '-' key the scaling is reduced by 10%. Repeated keystrokes change the scaling down to 20% or up to 1000%.

We have also added more keys to make it easier for people with eye problems:

6 or * on the numeric keypad - Zooms to 100%
7 or CTRL-"-" - zooms out 100% (ie. 400 - 300)
8 or CTRL-"+" - zooms in 100% (ie. 500 - 600)

From Opera versions above Opera 3.50, we've included a new icon button structure where you can design and/or define your own set of buttons in the program. You can use .JPEG, .JPG, .GIF, .BMP, and .XBM images, though not animated .GIFs.

The standard set that comes with Opera is stored in a directory called buttons/default underneath the Opera directory. The file buttons.ini defines the size of the toolbar icons (buttons) as well as the respective images that should be used (displayed). It is this .ini file that is called up via Preferences/Button & Statusbar.

The GIF images show with their transparency value.This means that the transparent background color is not shown on the toolbar.

If your icons are physically smaller than the size defined in buttons.ini, a lot of white space will show. If Opera cannot find the graphics files, it will display rough representations that.... don't really look nice. So before you load Opera with your new image set, make sure that all your icons are available via buttons.ini and also physically present,so that Opera can access them via buttons.ini.

For more information and information on the new button structure see our support site online: http://www.operasoftware.com/support/config/buttons.htm.

If you have a special icon set that you would like to share with other users, please let us know at buttons@operasoftware.com.

VERY IMPORTANT:
Upon renewed installation, Opera will overwrite the files in the ./buttons/default directory. If you use your own buttons, give them different names and place them into a different directory. DO NOT use the same directory and filenames as the those that come with Opera.

Download Window

The new download window is a lot more informative and functional than the previous one. You can now see graphically how much of the file has been loaded, how much longer it will still take for the download to be completed, and some other miscellaneous file information.

Once the file has been downloaded completely, a button allows you to take action, amongst others to cancel the current download, should it be too slow or inconvenient. This button gives you standard access to other options, so in the case of an .EXE file you can install it directly, or if it's a .ZIP file, you can all up your default UNZIP application.

All currently active downloads will be displayed in that window.