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Corrections & Typos

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Confirmed typos in the May 2005 reprint of the 1st edition:

• p.212 last paragraph
  In fact, Internet Explorer 6 only switches into Quirks Mode when non-whitespace characters are inserted before the DOCTYPE. Blank lines do not prevent IE from using standards compliance mode.

Confirmed typos in the February 2005 reprint of the 1st edition:

• p.254 code listing 1
  The last two CSS rules need to select the :visited pseudo-class to correctly style links in Internet Explorer:

  a:link, a:visited {
    background-color: #ACACAC;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration: none;
    padding: 1px 2px 1px 2px;
  }
  a.block:link, a.block:visited {
    display: block;
  }

• p.273 code listing 2
  This code listing should be labelled position.css, not position.html.

Confirmed typos in the December 2004 reprint of the 1st edition:

• p.57 last paragraph
  The image tiles down the page in a single column, not row.

Confirmed typos in the November 2004 print of the 1st edition:

• p.8 paragraph 3
  The process [...] is called cascading, and is where Cascading Style Sheets got their name.
• p.33 Figure 2.14
  -15px in the figure caption should be -12px.