Errata Page

It appears that the errata page for "Beginning Django E-commerce" has been wiped out for the book on Apress' web site. A few readers just emailed me to let me know. Apologies to everyone for the inconvenience. Unfortunately, I don't have a full backup of the contents of the page, but I remember some of the larger flubs, so I'll list them and post in the next week.

For those of you who have this blog in an RSS reader, here's a quick and simple CSS tip so it's not all bad news. I recently learned about a CSS property called text-overflow, which you can set to a value of ellipsis. When used in conjunction with a couple of other CSS properties, any text which is too long is truncated and "..." is appended to the end.

Example with an H1 element:

Really long long first-level header element that has a lot of text

Now, here's one that is styled with "text-overflow:hidden;":

Really long long first-level header element that has a lot of text

Here is the list of styles being applied to the latter that make this possible:

• text-overflow: ellipsis;


• white-space: nowrap;


• overflow:hidden;

Seems very underutilized on the web, as I often see text wrapping on a page where the designer clearly never expected there to be a lot of text. And definitely useful if you're doing HTML5 for a mobile browser, where available space is even more constrained.