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Start Here! Learn HTML5

Errata for Start Here! Learn HTML5

The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.

The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.

Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
PDF Page 11
8th paragraph

it says "the navigation pane" and should says "the navigation panel"

 Fernando Contreras  Feb 27, 2014 
PDF, ePub Page 21
boxed note, last line

"xlmns" should be "xmlns"

 Anonymous  Sep 11, 2013 
PDF Page 79
Creating and Hyperlinking to Anchors section

The "name" attribute has been replaced by the "id" attribute instead. Please see:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/a.html

Example:
<a id="conclusion">Conclusion</a>

instead of...
<a name="conclusion">Conclusion</a>

 Byron Minick  Mar 13, 2013 
Printed Page 101
2nd Notepad image

There should be no gaps between a:link, a:visited, a:hover
& a:active - as they are shown in the image, the code does not work.

 John Monsant  Sep 03, 2013 
Printed Page 190
2. In Notepad, default.css file, add the following style rule

2. In Notepad, default.css file, add the following style rule
nav {float: left; width: 150px etc
This coding does not work for Internet Explorer but works
in Google Chrome.

 John Monsant  Sep 03, 2013 
Printed Page 238
Exercise

HTML5 do not support table attributes; cellpadding and cellspacing.

 Tapani Havia  Jul 25, 2013 
Printed Page 246
HTML5 Start Here\14Forms\CreatingForm\signup.htm

I do not see a </form> for the exercise. Is this an error? The exercise works perfectly in Firefox, but will not work in IE10. Tried the signup.htm in the solutions folder with the same results.

 Anonymous  Apr 06, 2013 
Printed Page 246
Exercise

<div id="header">
<i> must be inside <h5> tag (that is wrong in all exercise files).

<div id="main">
<form> must be outside <table> tag.
<colgroup> can't be inside <form> or <table> tag.
HTML5 do not support colgroup attributes: align or valign.
<tr> can't be inside <colgroup> tag.

 Tapani Havia  Jul 26, 2013 
Printed Page 270
Excercise task 6

<embed> tag do not include attributes; allowscriptaccess and allowfullscreen.

 Tapani Havia  Jul 28, 2013