Text Hyperlinks not Working from Indesign EPUB

[joev]

I am using KindleGen to generate a mobi file from an Indesign (Creative Cloud 2014) fixed layout epub. None of my text hyperlinks work.

There do not appear to be any errors from KindleGen

Info(prcgen):I1047: Added metadata original-resolution "1024x600"
Info(prcgen):I1015: Building PRC file
Info(prcgen):I1006: Resolving hyperlinks
Info(pagemap):I8000: No Page map found in the book
Info(prcgen):I1045: Computing UNICODE ranges used in the book
Info(prcgen):I1046: Found UNICODE range: Basic Latin [20..7E]
Info(prcgen):I1046: Found UNICODE range: General Punctuation - Windows 1252 [2018..201A]
Info(prcgen):I1046: Found UNICODE range: Latin-1 Supplement [A0..FF]
Info(prcgen):I1017: Building PRC file, record count:   0000016
Info(prcgen):I1039: Final stats - text compressed to (in % of original size):  25.86%
Info(prcgen):I1040: The document identifier is: "Grandama_went_to_heaven"
Info(prcgen):I1041: The file format version is V5
Info(prcgen):I1031: Saving PRC file
Info(prcgen):I1032: PRC built successfully
Info(prcgen):I1016: Building enhanced PRC file
Info(prcgen):I1007: Resolving mediaidlinks
Info(prcgen):I1011: Writing mediaidlinks
Info(prcgen):I1009: Resolving guide items
Info(prcgen):I1017: Building PRC file, record count:   0000029
Info(prcgen):I1039: Final stats - text compressed to (in % of original size):  36.10%
Info(prcgen):I1041: The file format version is V8
Info(prcgen):I15000:  Approximate Standard Mobi Deliverable file size :   0002681KB
Info(prcgen):I15001:  Approximate KF8 Deliverable file size :   0002727KB
Info(prcgen):I1036: Mobi file built successfully

The code generated by Indesign

<a href="http://www.mydomain.com"><span id="_idTextSpan658" class="Hyperlink CharOverride-10" style="position:absolute;top:9768px;left:16958.58px;letter-spacing:-0.72px;">website</span></a>

I tried moving the <a> tag inside the <span> tag and removed the Hyperlink class. Neither worked. I can add an <a> tag to an image either in Indesign or by editing the resulting xhtml file that work as expected.

Not sure where to go next. Any help is much appreciated.

[AxelK]

I have exactly the same problem and wonder if you ever found a solution ?

In my case the link is working fine in epub, but not once converted into the Kindle format. Absolute positioning seems to have an issue with the z-index ordering, but the point is that it works in the epub, so it seems to be Kindle specific.