Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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In the chapter "CSS and Documents" , the book states Note from the Author or Editor: |
Yasir | Mar 08, 2019 | Jun 21, 2019 | ||
Printed | Page 8 Last paragraph |
"To successfully load an external stylesheet, link must be placed inside the head element but not be placed inside any other element." Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Nov 28, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 |
Printed | Page 22 last line of code |
"color-depth" is not a valid media feature. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Alfred Myers | Jun 04, 2019 | Jun 21, 2019 |
ePub | Page 32 4th paragraph |
(covered in later in this book). |
don matthews | Mar 24, 2019 | Jun 21, 2019 |
Page 35 2nd paragraph in the section titled The universal selector |
In the following sentence: Note from the Author or Editor: |
AMS | Jan 11, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 35 example below 2nd paragraph |
Wrong: |
Agt the Walker | May 14, 2017 | Nov 17, 2017 | |
Page 39 2nd paragraph |
Concerning the following sentence: Note from the Author or Editor: |
AMS | Jan 12, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 53 last paragraph |
The paragraph begins with "Again, that's in langauges ..." |
Andreas Wachowski | Jan 28, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
ePub | Page 63% Opening Grid Spaces |
Percentage is considered as a valid value for grid-row-gap and grid-column-gap in their declaration boxes correctly, but under that it is incorrectly stated: "Right up front: as the value syntax shows, ... It’s not possible to supply a percentage, a Note from the Author or Editor: |
Samir Saeedi | Feb 13, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 |
ePub | Page 65% Table Formatting > Table Display Values > Columns > Visbility |
The book reads: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Samir Saeedi | Feb 13, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 |
Page 78 2nd paragraph |
"... to be absolute URLS, ..." --> "... to be absolute URLs, ..." (lowercase "s" in URLs) |
Andreas Wachowski | Jan 28, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 78 beginning of general note |
The note begins "Styled visited links enables visitors to know ..." |
Andreas Wachowski | Jan 28, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 83 paragraph above figure 2-39 |
The paragraph contains Note from the Author or Editor: |
Andreas Wachowski | Jan 28, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 87 code after 3rd paragraph |
This is just a tiny stylistic improvement. It says: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Andreas Wachowski | Jan 28, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 102 last paragraph, last character |
Another tiny stylistic remark. The "!important" keyword is split across pages 102/103. The exclamation mark "!" appears as the last character on page 102, while "important" is on the next page. Perhaps unicode U+2060 (word joiner) can be used to avoid this? Note from the Author or Editor: |
Andreas Wachowski | Jan 28, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Printed | Page 106 5th paragraph |
It states that inherit is covered in the previous chapter; it's not, it's covered in the next chapter. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Apr 24, 2019 | Jun 21, 2019 |
Page 110 1st paragraph |
The paragraph refers to the LVFHA pseudo-classes a:link, a:hover, etc. and says "the specificity of all of these selectors is the same: 0,0,1,0" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Andreas Wachowski | Jan 28, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Printed | Page 110 first paragraph |
... is matched by four of the rules - :link, Lfocus, :hover and :active ... Note from the Author or Editor: |
Evertjan Garretsen | Apr 09, 2021 | Jan 21, 2022 |
Page 124 2nd paragraph |
"If a display's resolution is set to 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels tall, its screen size is exactly 10 2/3 inches wide by 8 inches tall, and the screen it is filled entirely by the display pixels, then each pixel will be 1/96 of an inch wide and tall." |
Andreas Wachowski | Jan 28, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 130 1st par of section "Calculation values" |
"The permitted operators are [...] multiplcation [...]." |
Andreas Wachowski | Jan 28, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Printed | Page 144 2nd paragraph, before "Custom Values" heading |
The text reads: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Feb 10, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 |
Page 167 next to last paragraph |
The paragraph above "How Weights Work" (starting with "What's really happening") includes an unfortunate hyphenation of "TimesBold": Note from the Author or Editor: |
Andreas Wachowski | Feb 10, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 171 3rd paragraph |
The paragraph beginning with "As you can see" has a phrase reading "[...] and then evaluate to the next-heaviest face, [...]". I believe that should have been "next-heavier". Note from the Author or Editor: |
Andreas Wachowski | Feb 10, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Printed | Page 179 1st paragraph |
I don't think you mean "Figure 5-12"; I think you mean Figure 5-15. |
Anonymous | May 08, 2019 | Jun 21, 2019 |
Page 190 Figure 5-29 |
The sentence inside the figure lacks a word: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Andreas Wachowski | Mar 17, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 190 1st sentence in "The font-stretch Descriptor" section |
The sentence starting with "Much as with ..." uses inconsistent formatting: |
Andreas Wachowski | Mar 17, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 198 2nd paragraph |
Typo in "Similarly, a font family that lacks an italic face an have one [..]" |
Andreas Wachowski | Mar 17, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 198 last paragraph |
There's a typo in "You can block it for the whole document with html (font-synthesis: none;}" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Andreas Wachowski | Mar 17, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 200 Code example at end of page |
The first CSS comment in the four declarations at the end of the page reads "/*no problem here */", where, for stylistic and consistency reasons, there should be a space between the opening comment tag "/*" and "no". Note from the Author or Editor: |
Andreas Wachowski | Mar 17, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 216 1st line in section "The Height of Lines" |
The last word on the line beginning with "The distance between lines" is lowercase, it should be uppercase (since it starts a new sentence). Note from the Author or Editor: |
Andreas Wachowski | Mar 18, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 218 Markup at end of page |
The CSS at the end of the page begins with Note from the Author or Editor: |
Andreas Wachowski | Mar 18, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 223 Figure 6-16 |
The figure contains "some text which is not tall", whereas the related markup reads "some text that is not tall". Note from the Author or Editor: |
Andreas Wachowski | Mar 18, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 233 Figure 6-29 |
The figure refers to classes named "one", "two", "three", etc., but the corresponding markup uses different class names ("emph", "topper", "old", etc.). Note from the Author or Editor: |
Andreas Wachowski | Mar 18, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 234 Figure 6-30 |
There is an unnecessary line break in the markup, the word "beneath" stands by itself in a new line, followed by a line break and "it as well.</p>" (cf. figure 6-31) Note from the Author or Editor: |
Andreas Wachowski | Mar 18, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 270 2nd paragraph from bottom |
Change "first" with "last". Note from the Author or Editor: |
Pavel Savenkov | Dec 18, 2016 | Nov 17, 2017 | |
Printed | Page 270 Caption Figure 7-14 |
"What happens when both the width and right margin are auto". |
Bart | Dec 04, 2017 | Jun 21, 2019 |
Printed | Page 293 Bottom HTML example and screenshot |
The bottom screenshot shows “strong” elevated by 4px as in the top screenshot, yet the corresponding HTML code is missing the “vertical-align: 4px” from the top HTML code. Either code or screenshot should be corrected for both to match. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Christoph Nahr | Jan 18, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 |
Printed | Page 294 Both HTML code examples and screenshot |
Same error as on p.293. Screenshot shows an elevated “strong” element yet HTML code does not contain any corresponding “vertical-align: 4px”. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Christoph Nahr | Jan 18, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 |
Printed | Page 313 Table |
The second and third table rows are misformatted. The long list of values should be on the left in the second row, and the value “block” here put in the third row should be on the right in the second row. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Christoph Nahr | Jan 18, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 |
Printed | Page 346 4th paragraph |
Sentence "If there are two, the third is copied form the first..." should read "If there are two, the third is copied from the first..." |
Greg Brain | Nov 30, 2017 | Jun 21, 2019 |
Printed | Page 347 2nd paragraph |
Sentence "There, we can see an element that's bee floated to the left..." should read "There, we can see an element that's been floated to the left..." |
Greg Brain | Nov 30, 2017 | Jun 21, 2019 |
Printed | Page 430 First line of last paragraph |
"the image is attached ot the local" should read "the image is attached to the local" |
Alyce Hoggan | Aug 28, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 |
Printed | Page 456 2nd Paragraph |
2nd sentence should have "that" instead of "than". |
Alejandro Franco | Apr 03, 2020 | Jun 12, 2020 |
Printed | Page 598 bottom of page |
in other words, if an element has an explicitly |
Anonymous | Jul 19, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 |
Page 646 section heading: "Numeric flexing" |
where: |
Warren Bank | Jan 01, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 669 3rd paragraph |
In the 3rd paragraph, |
Charles | Mar 28, 2020 | Jun 12, 2020 | |
Page 781 first example "em" |
generated content for "em" with "display: block" works. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Mar 08, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 | |
Page 1042 "box-shadow" index entry |
The index entry for "box-shadow" only points to pages 886 and 887. The main section for those starts on page 485, which, I think, the index should (also, primarily) refer to. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Andreas Wachowski | Mar 17, 2018 | Jun 21, 2019 |