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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Page 6 2nd paragraph, html code, meta tag |
The meta tag content attribute has an extra quotation before utf-8. |
afula | Jul 30, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 | |
Printed | Page 26 |
The Importance of the Doctype Note from the Author or Editor: |
Lyall Braidwood | Jul 04, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 34 Note box |
The Note box starting with "Don't forget to end each property/value pair with a semicolon:..." refers to the CSS validator "...as described in the box on the next page." The CSS validator "Up to Speed" box does not appear until page 36. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Timthy Morrill | Apr 13, 2011 | Jul 15, 2011 |
Page 42 3rd line from the tope |
The text following the opening <title> tag should be "CSS:The Missing Manual -- Chapter 2" and not "Basic Web Page" |
Tara Hammons | Oct 18, 2011 | Mar 02, 2012 | |
Printed | Page 42 top code snipped |
Bolded text should extend through closing style tag to indicate all of the added code. |
Richard Myers | Jan 21, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Page 64 Power Users Clinic box, last sentance |
http://somedirection.com/2007/06/10/using-jquery-to-avoid-classitis-in-ie6 is not correct. |
stevenpinkham | Aug 25, 2009 | Oct 01, 2009 | |
Printed | Page 69 4th paragraph |
Printed: |
Anonymous | May 16, 2010 | Mar 02, 2012 |
Printed | Page 75 second paragraph of step 4 |
"... class selectors don't have any affect on a web page until...." "affect" should be "effect." |
Anonymous | Jul 27, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 79 Last sentence |
The last sentence on page 79 currently reads as follows (emphasis added): |
Anonymous | Jan 05, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 79 first paragraph |
This is part of step 5 of the tutorial. After adding an ID tag, the text reads ". . ., there are many ways to arrive at the same destination: You can instead use a class style and apply it to the <body> tag (as long as you don't apply it more than once on the page)." However, the text within the parenthesis is wrong. You can use classes as many times as you need, but can only use an ID once per page. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Aug 11, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 82 Figure 4-1 |
The two screen shots do not match the descriptions; they appear to be reversed. |
Michael Wasserman | Jan 01, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 89 3rd paragraph |
The phrase "in action" should be one word -- inaction. (The section is talking about times that inheritance doesn't apply.) |
Nan Barber | Aug 17, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 89 3. Add three properties |
margin-left: 50px; |
Sean Parry | Aug 27, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 97 1st "Note" at the top of the page |
:first-child is a pseudo-class (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#first-child), not a pseudo-element. |
yosedesh | Feb 17, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 98 middle of page, just under FAQ box |
The paragraph that begins: "Now suppose the the style..." should show something different than what was shown on the bottom of page 97 I believe. But it's the same thing. Maybe it was supposed to reverse those two lines and say "in this case it's blue"?? Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Sep 08, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 98 FAQ "Get a little help" top -right |
The view formatted source extension has not been updated for Firefox 2+ and therefore probably shouldn't be recommended. |
donald horton | Oct 06, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 103 in the code sample inside the 4th paragraph |
One of the tags included with the CSS reset is "variable". There is no HTML tag called <variable>. There is one called <var>, but it is an inline tag like <em> and <strong>. All of the tags in the reset list are block tags. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Jeff Tash | Feb 19, 2012 | Mar 02, 2012 |
Printed | Page 104 line 2 after Figure 5.5 |
End of first sentence following Figure 5.5 reads: "you saw in Figure 5-1." Should read "you saw in Figure 5-5." |
NLB | Jan 14, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 123 middle paragraph, starting with "When it comes to inheritance" |
The sentence which begins, "There's a lot of math to this one:", should continue: "32 pixels (inherited from the <div> tag) x .75 (inherited from the <p> tag) x .75 (inherited from the <em> tag x .75 (the <strong> tag's own font size)." |
GCH | Dec 16, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Page 123 2nd paragraph, last sentence |
"5em is 50 percent" should be "5em is 500 percent" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Dec 23, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 | |
Printed | Page 131 next to last line |
The last sentence, enclosed in parentheses, reads "You'll learn more ... on page 121." But this is on page 131. Thus, either the page number reference is wrong or the first two words in this sentence should be changed to "You learned". Note from the Author or Editor: |
Jesse Heines | Jul 08, 2010 | Jul 15, 2011 |
Printed | Page 131 p.131, last sentence |
Sentence reads |
Tan Truong | Apr 17, 2011 | Jul 15, 2011 |
Printed | Page 131 last sentence |
This page was already listed in the errata and a change was made modifying the reference from page 121 to page 154. However, in the process the tense got changed from future ("You will learn") to past ("You learned"). |
Jeff Tash | Feb 20, 2012 | Mar 02, 2012 |
Printed | Page 137 Tip section on top |
The link to bullet madness www.stylegala.com/features/bulletmadness/index.html/ Note from the Author or Editor: |
Victor Rodriguez | Oct 09, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 139 1st paragraph, first line |
line should read: ". . . after the </title> tag." instead of "<title> tag" as printed. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Powernattoh | Sep 25, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 139 2nd paragraph |
The cross-reference for the CSS reset should be to page 102 instead of "page 192". Note from the Author or Editor: |
Michael Wasserman | Jan 01, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Page 144 2nd paragraph |
"The four values are order like this:" should perhaps be written as, "The four values are ordered like this:" |
Anonymous | Dec 25, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 | |
Printed | Page 145 last paragraph |
#main .byline { Note from the Author or Editor: |
kim kristianson | Jan 05, 2010 | Jul 15, 2011 |
Page 148 2nd to last paragraph, 1st sentence |
"It should look like Figure 6-14." should be "It should look like Figure 6-15." |
Anonymous | Dec 25, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 | |
Printed | Page 153 Inside "Note", first line of the page |
"As discussed on page 423" should be changed to "102". Page 102 is the page with the CSS reset styles. |
Tan Truong | Apr 15, 2011 | Jul 15, 2011 |
Printed | Page 153 4th line from bottom of page |
I believe that the comma after "content" should be after "border". |
Jesse Heines | Jul 24, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 157 Figure 7.4 at top of page |
Page 157 Figure 7-4 Note from the Author or Editor: |
NLB | Mar 16, 2011 | Jul 15, 2011 |
Printed | Page 159 1st paragraph |
On line 5,(... example of one on page 238 in Chapter 9) should be (... example of one on page 239 in Chapter 9) |
Gian Piero de Bellis | Jan 23, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 167 note |
IE 5 box model uses the width property to define an element's area conteining the borders, padding and width, but no the margins ... Note from the Author or Editor: |
Jonathan | Dec 19, 2010 | Mar 02, 2012 |
Printed | Page 180 Under Step 5. font-size: 24px ; |
There is a space between 24px and the ; after it. AWESOME book by the way! I will submit a review later if you have a place to do that. |
Amy Blassing | Dec 27, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 191 3rd para 1st line |
Should read: As explained in the box on the next page... Note from the Author or Editor: |
Malcolm Shifrin | Jan 04, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 191 1st line of 2nd code example |
There should not be a space after the slash and before "images" in: |
Jesse Heines | Jul 24, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 195 Figure 8-5 Caption - Second sentence |
Page 195 Figure 8-5: Second sentence reads: |
NLB | Mar 17, 2011 | |
Printed | Page 197 Note (middle of page) |
The note refers to another note on page 311. There is no note on 311. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Scott Briefer | Jul 09, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 199 last paragraph |
Part of the text:"...adds a nonrepeating fixed background image...." Note from the Author or Editor: |
Torbj?rn Ferm | Nov 16, 2011 | Mar 02, 2012 |
Page 200 Example above last paragraph |
If scrolling is normal browser behavior: |
Anonymous | Dec 27, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 | |
Printed | Page 204 Step #3 |
On page 205, first paragraph, a reference is made to the width of the example image and the reader is told to look at step 3. The html shown in step 3 for the img tag does not include a width parameter. The html shown is: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Sep 24, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 206 Step 1 text |
The second sentence of the text says: "The page contains nine photos and photo captions." |
Anonymous | Dec 27, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 210 p 210 TIP: first line of type - last word on line "than" |
Typo on the word "than" should read "that". "TIP: There is a way to avoid that weird display problem noted in step 5, as well as create a gallery than can handle..." should read "that can handle". |
Amy Blassing | Dec 28, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 216 step 6, line two of paragraph |
" . . . until it just tops the touch of . . ." should read: |
Powernattoh | Sep 30, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Page 216 2nd paragraph, first sentence |
"The first line just adds a bit of padding pushes down the banner" should read as "The first line just adds a bit of padding, pushing down the banner" |
Anonymous | Dec 28, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 | |
Printed | Page 216 Step 5 (line 4) reads "background-position: top left;" |
The line should read "background-position: left top;" The TIP on the top of page 234 explains why. "Tip: In positioning background images, the first value is the horizontal placement (left to right); the second is vertical placement (top to bottom)." Note from the Author or Editor: |
Amy Blassing | Dec 29, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 216 8th paragraph |
Under "Replacing Borders with Graphics" |
Ed | Dec 31, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 218 1 under 'Using Graphics for Bulleted Lists' |
return to the 'sidebar.html' Note from the Author or Editor: |
Eddie | Sep 25, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 218 first line, top of page |
Padding, as you'll recall from, is the space... Note from the Author or Editor: |
richardtmyers | Feb 03, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Page 222 Step 4, and 2nd line of code |
background: url(images/scroll_top.jpg) no-repeat; |
Anonymous | Dec 28, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 | |
Printed | Page 223 2nd to the last line in step 8 |
"You'll learn" should be "You learned" because this is a back reference to page 173. |
Jesse Heines | Jul 24, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 228 2nd line of Tip |
The comma after "this" should be after "case" so that the sentence reads: "In this case, you can add ..." |
Jesse Heines | Jul 24, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 231 Middle, paragraph starts with: "Say you added..." |
<a link="stale.html"... should read <a href="stale.html"... |
Scott Briefer | Jul 11, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Page 235 1st paragraph, next to last sentence |
"principal" should be "principle" |
Tara Hammons | Nov 14, 2011 | Mar 02, 2012 | |
Printed | Page 244 2nd paragraph in Frequently Asked Question box |
Page 240 should be 258. The tutorial starts on page 258. |
Uno Ramat | Jan 08, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 248 Note (top of page) |
The link in the second paragraph of the note has changed from |
Alex Hedley | Aug 02, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 255 1st paragraph |
"The email link at the bottom of the page remains unaffected by the styles you've created so far..." Note from the Author or Editor: |
Sally Davis | Dec 25, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 257 Note: line 6 "Unless you client" |
Sentence reads "Unless you client or boss...". It should read "Unless your client or boss...". |
Amy Blassing | Dec 29, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 258 next-to-the-last line |
I would recommend changing "It looks like example one in Figure 9-15." to "It looks like example #1 in Figure 9-15." both for clarity and to be consistent with all the other references to the six sub-images in this figure. |
Jesse Heines | Jul 24, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 263 section 3 |
Says 'locate the Features link' |
Eddie | Sep 27, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Page 263 Step 4 |
Step 4 says repeat step 4, when it should say repeat step 3. |
Anonymous | Dec 29, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 | |
Printed | Page 266 Step 1. of "From Vertical to Horizontal" |
Right after completing a tutorial to create a vertical navigational bar, we begin working on a tutorial to create a horizontal navigational bar. Step 1 includes the following text: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Tan Truong | Apr 23, 2011 | Mar 02, 2012 |
Printed | Page 266 1st paragraph after top code example |
Paragraph reads "As discussed in the box on page 73..." Note from the Author or Editor: |
Brian | Oct 23, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 282 top in Note |
It has a link to CSS Cookbook free chapter. |
Eddie | Sep 28, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 294 tutorial setp 10 |
The example image in the book is different from the one I get by following the tutorial and also different from finished example contained in the downloaded files. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Len | Jun 13, 2011 | Mar 02, 2012 |
Printed | Page 315 1st paragraph, 3rd line, of section: Floating All Columns |
"... Figure 12-2, top." should be "... Figure 12-4, top." |
Powernattoh | Oct 10, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 317 1st para |
Fifth line down: |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 323 1st paragraph |
left-margin: -619px; |
Anonymous | Nov 20, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 328 Last code segment |
There is an extraneous space after 'url' which prevents the code working, it should be: |
Anonymous | Feb 17, 2010 | Dec 02, 2011 |
Printed | Page 338 Box 'Power User's Clinic,' second paragraph |
The second sentence begins "In the Chapter 9 ... |
Erik Gloor | Apr 02, 2010 | Jul 15, 2011 |
Page 338 Power Users' Clinic, 5th paragraph |
"Firfox" should be: "Firefox." |
Anonymous | Dec 30, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 | |
Printed | Page 352 1. code |
padding for left and bottom are in reverse. As code in finished html, it should be: |
Heath Kemp | Feb 02, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 367 4 |
Not sure the reference is correct - says 'see page 367' which is the page we are on....? Note from the Author or Editor: |
Eddie | Sep 29, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Page 382 Last paragraph, 2nd sentence |
The sentence: "This style moves the logo far enough to the left so that it?s out of the way of the absolutely positioned graphic. |
Anonymous | Dec 30, 2009 | Dec 02, 2011 | |
Printed | Page 396 1st "Note" around the middle of the page |
As of Feb. 24, 2010: Note from the Author or Editor: |
yosedesh | Feb 24, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 401 Code example shown just above the last paragraph |
Style does not have a closing semicolon ( ; ) Note from the Author or Editor: |
Erik Gloor | Apr 05, 2010 | Dec 02, 2011 |
Printed | Page 404 1st sentence of the 2nd to last paragraph |
"As you learned in of the third part of this book," |
John S Weidle | Jan 21, 2011 | Jul 15, 2011 |
Printed | Page 412 Last paragraph |
In step 2, under displaying URLs, it says open cosmo.html. It should be open print.html. There is no file called cosmo.html in this exercise. |
Doug Ayers | Oct 06, 2011 | Mar 02, 2012 |
Printed | Page 417 3rd paragraph, last sentence |
"The names you've see so far" should read |
Chris Matthews | Jul 18, 2011 | Dec 02, 2011 |
Printed | Page 418 figure 15-2 |
The images look to be completely wrong for what the figure is supposed to be illustrating - multiple classes using two images on a page as an example. |
Eddie | Oct 01, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 421 figure 15-3 |
Image 15-3 should be an example of an external style sheet serving as a gatekeeper for other style sheets. It is a copy of figure 14-3 instead. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | May 30, 2011 | Mar 02, 2012 |
Printed | Page 425 Last paragraph, 2nd line "appling a border to of a table cell" |
line reads, "applying a border to of a table cell..." Note from the Author or Editor: |
Amy Blassing | Jan 01, 2010 | Dec 02, 2011 |
Printed | Page 426 3rd paragraph, 2nd and 3rd line "...then you may have notice that..." |
line reads "...then you may have notice that..." should read "...then you may have noticed that..." |
Amy Blassing | Jan 01, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 432 4 line from top |
"#news a#newlink," should be |
Chris Matthews | Jul 18, 2011 | Dec 02, 2011 |
Printed | Page 438 Last paragraph, before tip |
Line reads: "The rest of this chapter walks you through you a bunch of them". Should read: "The rest of this chapter walks you through a bunch of them". |
Bosko Pesic | Nov 06, 2011 | Dec 02, 2011 |
Printed | Page 441 1st Paragraph |
Since this book was written, Safari, Opera and Chrome have added support for nth-child selectors so top paragraph should read: |
David Sawyer McFarland |
Aug 21, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 442 Last paragraph (before Note) |
Should read: |
David Sawyer McFarland |
Aug 23, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 449 Note |
http://eyebulb.com/dropshadow has gone. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Alex Hedley | Aug 17, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 466 text-indent description, "Values" bullet point, line 5 refers to p. 62; I think this should be p. 130. |
text-indent description, "Values" bullet point, line 5 refers to p. 62; I think this should be p. 130. |
Matthew Gillman | May 04, 2011 | Dec 02, 2011 |
Printed | Page 470 2nd paragraph in "border-width" |
The first word "colors" of the second line (6th line in "border-width") for the paragraph should be "widths". This is probably a copy-and-paste error carried from page 469 in "border-color". |
Chang-Ping Hsiao | Dec 18, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Printed | Page 476 'clip' example |
For rect(5px,110px,40px,10px) the height of the clipping box should be 40px-5px = 35px (not the stated 30 pixels). Note from the Author or Editor: |
Alan Olrog | Dec 29, 2010 | Dec 02, 2011 |
Printed | Page 496 2nd line in the paragaph under the Tip |
The sentence "If your page has three Heading 1 <h2> paragraphs, ..." should read "If your page has three Heading 2 <h2> paragraphs, ..." |
Jesse Heines | Jul 24, 2010 | Mar 01, 2011 |
Other Digital Version | 1916 kindle locations 1916 and 1944 |
In the .mobi and .epub versions, figure 3-8 and 3-9 are switched. |
stevenpinkham | Aug 25, 2009 | Mar 01, 2011 |