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kentmatt · 01-22-2011, 10:44 PM

OK, apparently what I posted was BS - I was following the instructions at http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/articl...guidelines.htm

Which states: "Boxes & Important information display
Use a <div> tag with e.g. a light red background color and a border="1" attribute to highlight a paragraph. "

Once I stripped out my CSS and used their suggestion, it doesn't work in either Firefox or Epiphany - and so of course it wouldn't work when converted to MOBI.

Any suggestions on how to get a border and background around a block of text in HTML that will convert to mobi (CSS doesn't stay, and using a table doesn't work if the text goes off the 'page').

01-22-2011, 10:44 PM	#2
kentmatt Member Posts: 22 Karma: 116 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: none	OK, apparently what I posted was BS - I was following the instructions at http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/articl...guidelines.htm Which states: "Boxes & Important information display Use a <div> tag with e.g. a light red background color and a border="1" attribute to highlight a paragraph. " Once I stripped out my CSS and used their suggestion, it doesn't work in either Firefox or Epiphany - and so of course it wouldn't work when converted to MOBI. Any suggestions on how to get a border and background around a block of text in HTML that will convert to mobi (CSS doesn't stay, and using a table doesn't work if the text goes off the 'page'). Last edited by Alexander Turcic; 02-05-2011 at 07:46 PM. Reason: fix broken link