Corrections to Chapter 4:
HTML Sourcebook, Second Edition

[1] Page 152, description for BGCOLOR

The second sentence should be modified to read
"If a BACKGROUND image is also specified, the background will first be filled with this color, and then tiled with the image."

[1] Page 161, Caption to Figure 4.9

Caption should include the extra sentence: "Note that the checkboxes next to Russia and Sweden have been selected by the user, in addition to the default checkbox selected in Figure 4.8."

[1] Page 175, body of Figure 4.13

Note that the body text is misleading. In the last paragraph before the lists the text says "A typed carriage return will cause a new line in the presented text." This is incorrect -- a typed carriage return will not cause a new line in the presented text, unless it occurs inside a PRE element.

[1] Page 190, description of URN

First sentence should read " ... is intended to specify the Universal Resource Name ..."

[1] Page 195, description of WIDTH

Error in first sentence: should read "WIDTH specifies the actual width, n, of the ...". (text has "height").

[1] Page 197 and elsewhere

For some reason, there are several cases where the word element is misspelled as clement. Odd.

[1] Page 212, third paragraph, middle of page

The description of ROWSPAN and COLSPAN are reversed. The text should read:
    "The ROWSPAN attribute specifies how many rows are occupied by the cell, counting downwards, while the COLSPAN attribute specifies how many columns are occupied by the cell, counting to the right of the cell."

[1] Page 225, SMALL ELEMENT heading

This heading is mislabelled "Superscripts". It should read:
"SMALL ELEMENT: TEXT WITH REDUCED FONT SIZE"

[1] Page 228, garbled text in description of NOBR element

The text was miscomposed. The text should read:
  "The NOBR element marks a block of text that cannot contain formatted line breaks. Thus, a block of text enclosed in a NOBR will be displayed as a single line of text without any line breaks -- if long enough, the text will scroll off the displayed area, and will not wrap at the display boundary."

[1] Page 236, bottom paragraph, before table

Text should read:
"ROWS andCOLS values are specified as a comma-separated list of values."

[1] Page 238, last paragraph, lines 2-3

Text should read: "...and contain non-scrolling documents."

Credits

[1]: Courtesy of Wayne Garvin