Chapter 11 Textbook Exercises

Due date: Sunday, October 5, 2025 at 11:59 pm

Points value: 10 points

We've learned a lot of HTML and CSS, right? Well, this is the chapter where everything starts coming together. It's time to create web pages with real, functional layouts.

Instructions for Chapter 11

For this chapter, you'll be using some of the downloaded textbook files. First, go to the textbook files and open the "chapter11" folder. You'll see several folders inside. Make a copy of the "starbuzz", "absolute", and "tabledisplay" folders and paste them into your own "chapter11" folder. There! Now you're ready to work with these files.

The very first thing the text tells you to do in this chapter (p. 472, “Did you do the Super Brain Power?”) is to do the Super Brain Power exercise on p. 465 of Chapter 10. They’re right: You need to have done this exercise, so check before you move forward.

This chapter has a lot of exposition that’s really important, but you don’t have to type a thing until the exercise starts on p. 487 (“Let’s take Starbuzz to the next level”).

On p. 507 (“Using absolute positioning”), work out of the “absolute” folder. This exercise ends on p. 509 (“Time for the absolute test drive”), after which you are finished with the “absolute” folder.

On p. 512 (“How to create the CSS and HTML for a table display”), work out of the “tabledisplay” folder. You should be working in this folder throughout the rest of the chapter.

On p. 525 (“Fixing the header images with float”), the book asks you to grab two images from the “starbuzz/images” folder. Spoiler alert: They're not in there! I don’t know why. Instead, you’ll find them in the downloaded textbook files under “chapter11/starbuzz-complete/images”. Copy "headerLogo.gif" and "headerSlogan" from that folder and paste them into your own "tabledisplay/images" folder.

Remember to let me know if you have any questions.