General: Exercise Files for Internet Explorer

Some of the exercise files in the CSS Web Site Design HOT book do not work correctly with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Please click here to download an updated set of exercise files that work correctly with IE 7.0. We apologize for any inconvenience.

However, because Internet Explorer is not full compliant with the W3C's CSS standard, there are still a few exercises in which Internet Explorer users will encounter problems. These are:

• Chapter 4, Exercise 1, Steps 14-18. Because of a box model interpretation conflict in IE, the width declaration in these steps does not work with Internet Explorer. To preview the results as shown in the book, please open the file in an alternate browser, e.g. Firefox.
• Chapter 8, Exercise 1, Step 6-7. The caption does respond to the initial margin declaration in Step 6. However, to ensure your page displays the same in other browsers, follow the rest of the steps in this exercise.
• Chapter 9. Internet Explorer users may encounter some layout problems when trying to print using the screen styles in this chapter. The sidebar and main content area overlap. Follow the exercises in this chapter to create the print styles that resolve this conflict.

Chapter 6

Exercise 3, Step 12

A value in the second rule, italic, is misspelled as italics. The second rule in this step should be written as follows:

p {
                font-variant: small-caps;
                font-style: italic;
                font-weight: bolder;
            }
         

Chapter 10

Exercise 2, Step 5

The URL contained in the background declaration in the rule in this step should be written with only two periods, not three. E.g. background: url(../images/curl.gif).

Exercise 2, Step 7

The hexidecimal color value in this step is written incorrectly. It should be entered as #696397.

Exercise 5, Step 5

The selector in this step in written incorrectly. There should be a period between img and illus, e.g. #content img.illus.

Exercise 8, Step 5

The selector in this step is written incorrectly. There should be a hypen between first and line, e.g. #tea-of-the-day p:first-line.