HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition
By Chuck Musciano & Bill Kennedy

This errata page lists errors outstanding in the most recent printing.  

If you have any error reports or technical questions, you can send them to
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This page was last modified on July 25, 2001.

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        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification


Confirmed errors:


(vi) Section 13.1:
"Dynamiic" should be "Dynamic."


(8) 1st paragraph:
"Exstensible" should be "Extensible."


(8) 2nd paragraph:
"Web" should be "web."


(69) 3rd paragraph:
"An paragraph" should be "A paragraph".


(88) Table 4-2;
The sub and sup text should be higher or lower than the adjacent text, but not 
any smaller.


(145) footnote:
The word "individually" is misspelled.


(149) 2nd full paragraph;
Change "user's" to "users" and "town's" to "towns"


(152) Section 5.2.7.2 

At the end of the section, add:
	
	"With Internet Explorer version 5 and later, users stop movie 
	playback with the browser's stop button, and may restart it by 
	right-clicking on the movie image and selecting "Play" from the 
	dialog menu options."

The Figure 5-20 caption should read:

	"The controls attribute, no longer supported, added video 
	playback controls to inline movies."


[188] Add to end of section 6.6.11.2:

	Common "dot-slash" pathname notations also let you express 
	the current directory ("./") and directory above the current 
	directory (parent; "../") in a relative URL. The current 
	directory notation is rarely used, since it is redundant. But 
	the parent notation lets you set the target URL to directories 
	in other branches of the filesystem hierarchy.

	For example, if the directory portion of the current URL is 
	/planting/special/, and you want to reference an HTML document 
	named new_ground.html in planting/standard/, you may simply 
	form the relative URL as:
	
	    ../standard/new_ground.html

	You'll actually be retrieving:
	
 	    http://www.kumquat.com/planting/standard/new_ground.html

	Note that parent notation has limits. For instance, most Web 
	servers will not let you navigate above its base directory: 
	http://www.kumquat.com/../ probably won't deliver any document 
	or directory listing to your browser.


[206] <map> illustration:
Remove all but NAME from attribute list.


[207] Remove sections 6.5.3.2-.3.


(216) 6.6.1.1, line 2-3:
Text of default prompt is not appropriate to the referenced figure. (The 
figure had been updated, but not the text.)


[237] The nesting example should read:

<ul>
  <li>Morning Kumquat Delicacies
    <ul>
      <li>Hot Dishes
        <ul>
          <li>Kumquat omelet</li>
          <li>Kumquat waffles
            <ul>
              <li>Country style</li>
              <li>Belgian</li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li>Kumquats and toast</li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li>Cold Dishes
        <ul>
          <li>Kumquats and cornflakes</li>
          <li>Pickled Kumquats</li>
          <li>Diced Kumquats</li>
        </ul>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>


(262) third paragraph, 4th line: 
last word should be "occasions."


{297-298} <ol> lists at end of page 297 and top of page 298:
Add closing </li> tags (because of the XHTML rules).


{306} The <form> illustration is missing the "accept" attribute. HTML 4.01 has
this attribute on both the "form" and "input" tags.


(310)  first paragraph:
"The browser may chose ..."

should read:

"The browser may choose ..."


(318) <input> tag box:
The "OMMOUSEOVER" attribute should be "ONMOUSEOVER".


(329) button illustration:
Function line should read "Create a button..."
"OMMOUSEOVER" should be "ONMOUSEOVER." 
Add "TABORDER" and "NOTAB" as attributes.


(375) Last full paragraph;
Remove the second comma after "result".


[436] <noscript>
Remove all 16 attributes.


{437} Table 12-1, onBlur:
Remove asterisks after "<body>" and "<frameset>".


{438} Table 12-1, onFocus:
Remove asterisks after "<body>" and "<frameset>".


(449) mini-TOC and 13.1 header:
"Dynamiic" should be "Dynamic".


(486) 15.1.1, end of paragraph 2:
"Netscape Navigator 6" -> "Netscape 6"


(518) 1st line:
"amout" should be "amount."


{519} 2nd paragraph, 2nd line:
"workse" should be "works".


?522? last paragraph:
"Designing for the Web" is out-of-print. Replace with "Web Design in a 
Nutshell."


[546] head_content rule:
The rule is written as the following:

	head_content ::= <base>
              	      |  <isindex>
              	      |  <link>
              	      |  <meta>
              	      |  <nextid>
              	      |  style_tag
              	      |  title_tag

The script_tag rule MUST be included in the head_content rule. It should read:

	head_content ::= <base>
              	      |  <isindex>
              	      |  <link>
              	      |  <meta>
              	      |  <nextid>
              	      |  style_tag
              	      |  title_tag
              	      |  script_tag


{553} onBlur and onFocus should be listed under <a> tag.


(558) Remove "<dir>" attribute.


{561} <frameset>: 
class, id, style, and title attributes should be added.


(565) onClick should be added as an attribute.


{565-569} In the illustrations on pages 317 and 318, onClick is shown as 
an attribute. In the HTML Quick Reference starting on page, the input 
types should have onClick listed under them on pages 565-569.


(566) <input type=checkbox>, taborder:
"Specifu" -> "Specify"


(567) <inpute type=image>, usemap:
"withi" -> "within"


(570): <label>:
Add onClick attribute.


(572) 4th line:
Insert space between conjunction and with.


{574} <object>:
Add onClick attribute.


(586) font-size-adjust, 3rd column:
typo in "fon't"


(631) The symbol for entity 214 is missing


(632) &#253:
symbol is missing the accent