First off great book so far. I am just beginning chapter 3, but I really like the writing to this point. Considering it's a technical subject, it has been very interesting and engaging.

Second, in the future, it would be helpful to organize these book forums by chapter, that way I wouldn't have to look through 4 pages of topics to see if this has already been posted. That's not a complaint, just a suggestion. :)

OK now my chapter 2 question. On page 34, Example 2-3 - I was wondering if the border-width: 0px; option does anything? I tried changing to different numbers, like 25px or 1000 px and nothing in the display changed.

You're right, that doesn't do anything.

I think my intention there was to emulate what was going on in the earlier HTML example, which started on page 25, where I added BORDER=0. That one doesn't do anything either, table borders are off by default. I think I added that attribute because I added BORDER=1 in the example on page 24, and probably reused the source code to build those examples.

So, point-in-case, it doesn't do anything. :-)

Regards,
Rich

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I think that's a good idea for the forums, BTW.

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Rich

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Thanks!

Also - when you say it (border) is off by default, do you turn it on with the "border: .... " tag?

Yes, the border property can be used to place a border around the table, although the syntax is quite a bit different from the border HTML attribute. The border property is discussed in detail in Chapter 10.

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Rich

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This comment does not seem to work:

p
{
    font-family: Arial;

}


while this one does

<!-- p
{
    font-family: Arial;
        font-size: 14pt;
}
-->

in the first one, the font remains at 14 pt. In the second one, the font switches to 10 pt which I have defined in the body tag.

You've confused where HTML comments are applicable. The HTML-style comments, e.g. may only appear in markup, not in style sheets or script. There's just one exception to that rule and that's when you're including *embedded* style sheets or scripts and want to hide those from older browsers (something almost no one does anymore since over 99% of all browsers in use today are CSS and JavaScript aware). There's an example of that in Chapter 3.

In Chapter 3 I also introduce CSS comment syntax, which you may use in style sheets. Using proper style sheet comments, your examples would look like this:

p
{
    font-family: Arial;
    /*font-size: 14pt;*/
}
/*p
{
    font-family: Arial;
    font-size: 14pt;
}
*/

Your second example works because the browser will skip over bits of CSS it doesn't understand or considers to be invalid.

HTH!

Regards,
Rich

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