Customization of the TOC

[pjoshua5000]

I had a problem where I went to custom what the text is, in the Table of Content, and have it link where I wanted it to. I file for a feature request. I would read it, so you can understand the problem I am having.

kovidgoyal closed the ticket and told me how to fix my problem, but it doesn't seem to work,, plus he suggest that I take it to the forums.

<div class="toc1" style="display:none">
Chapter 1</div>

Does any one know how to Write the text you want in the TOC and not have that same text show up when you click the TOC link (that takes you to that part of the document").

So I want Chapter 1 in the TOC, but not to show that text to the linked part of the document.

Any help would be appreciated.

PS. This is my first post.

[jackie_w]

Welcome to the forum.

Does this work for you?

Set [Convert] - [Structure Detection] "Detect chapters at" to

//h:div[re:test(@class, "toc1", "i")]

[pjoshua5000]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Welcome to the forum.

Does this work for you?

Set [Convert] - [Structure Detection] "Detect chapters at" to

//h:div[re:test(@class, "toc1", "i")]

The problem is not building the TOC. I can even get level 1 and level 2 TOC links—that is not a problem.

I want the text in the TOC to be what I want like "chapter 1" and the place it links to, to say what I want, like today's date. I try Sigil editor, but changing the text of the TOC change the text of that is in the document.

So if there was a way to tell Calibre, in the HTML file,that this is the text to be place in TOC, and to not put in as text in the document.

If I used this code below, suggest by kovidgoyal, Calibre will know that that is why you want you link to in the TOC, and the name of the TOC entry, without adding that text in the document.

<div class="toc1" style="display:none">
Chapter 1</div>

[kovidgoyal]

Add this to your html

<div style="display:hidden">
<a href="#first">Chapter 1</a>
<a href="#second">Chapter 2</a>
</div>

<h3 id="first">This is chapter 1</h3>

<h3 id="second">This is chapter 2</h3>

[pjoshua5000]

Thank you kovidgoyal.

I final got it to work. I'm not sure why it did not work before, maybe it had something to do with the chapter threshold, or the fact I kept using toc1 as the name of my class thought out my many tries. Or a wrong xpath. Anyway it work now (at less for now, anyway) here is the code I got it to work with, thanks to kovidgoyal. Hopeful others can use this to solve the same problem.

<div style="display:none">
<p class="toca">Chapter test</p></div>

and the xpath

//h:div/h:p[re:test(@class, "toca", "i")]

Isn't learning fun! I like learning new things. And sometimes I will not give up till I solve my problem.

[kovidgoyal]

Congratulations