.mobi + cellpadding/cellspacing

radiocure · 02-11-2013, 09:23 PM

I usually make my EPUBs from scratch, and I recently finished one and it's in tip-top shape; looks exactly how I want it to. Used Calibre to convert to .mobi, which I've never had a great deal of trouble with, and I cannot for the life of me fix these tables.

In the epub, I used CSS to style the tables, and I know that's the cause of some trouble, so I re-coded those to use old school HTML attributes, but now everything's right except the cellpadding and cellspacing aren't showing up at all. I've tried it a bunch of different ways over the last few days, and for the life of me I can't figure it out. Am I missing something obvious?

At this point, I'm just saying:

<table cellpadding="10" cellspacing="15" width="80%">

susan_cassidy · 02-12-2013, 12:42 PM

Maybe the cellpadding/spacing is too big to allow the table to display, so the ereader software is overriding it? Callspacing of 15 and cellpadding of 10 is quite large.

02-11-2013, 09:23 PM	#1
radiocure Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	.mobi + cellpadding/cellspacing I usually make my EPUBs from scratch, and I recently finished one and it's in tip-top shape; looks exactly how I want it to. Used Calibre to convert to .mobi, which I've never had a great deal of trouble with, and I cannot for the life of me fix these tables. In the epub, I used CSS to style the tables, and I know that's the cause of some trouble, so I re-coded those to use old school HTML attributes, but now everything's right except the cellpadding and cellspacing aren't showing up at all. I've tried it a bunch of different ways over the last few days, and for the life of me I can't figure it out. Am I missing something obvious? At this point, I'm just saying: <table cellpadding="10" cellspacing="15" width="80%">

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02-12-2013, 12:42 PM	#2
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	Maybe the cellpadding/spacing is too big to allow the table to display, so the ereader software is overriding it? Callspacing of 15 and cellpadding of 10 is quite large.