Quote:
Originally Posted by theducks
Way too much code 
in the css
Code:
.firstpara { text-indent: 0 }
Now in your book
just ADD firstpara AFTER the calibre10
Code:
<p class="calibre10 firstpara">Ipsum ...</p>
[B]Cascade[/
B], use it or lose it 
All yo did was change a single attribute. and tack that OVER the base style |
your solution, as given does not work - tested on several books. I am having to also define the line spacing in the noindent class
e.g. this css does not cascade the line spacing - it still defaults to 1em for my (now not indented) 1st para. .description 1 is the para style in this instance - so I add your noindent code immediately afterwards like so:
.description1 {
border-bottom: 0;
border-top: 0;
display: block;
margin-bottom: 0.3em;
margin-left: 0;
margin-right: 0;
margin-top: 0;
padding-bottom: 0;
padding-top: 0;
text-indent: 1em
}
.noindent {text-indent: 0}
it works only if I add another line to noindent like so
.noindent {
margin-bottom: 0.3em;
text-indent: 0}
book code
Code:
<br class="calibre6" /></h2>
<p class="noindent"><span class="none">Randy left the house in time to see Missouri wedge herself under the wheel of the Henrys' Model-A Ford, an antique -so certified with a "Q" tag issued by the state-but kept in perfect running order by Malachai's mechanical ingenuity. "I haven't finished but I got to go now," she said. "Mrs. McGovern, she holds the clock on me. I'll be back tomorrow."</span></p>
<p class="description1"><span class="none">The Model-A, listing to port with Missouri's weight, bounced down the pebbled driveway. Randy got into his new Bonneville. It was a sweet car, a compromise between a sports job and a hardtop, long, low, very fast, .and a lot of fun, even though its high-compression engine drank premium fuel in quantity.</span></p>
that is easy to do - but my understanding of css cascade rules says it should have worked without that extra line - tested, as I say on several different books
can you explain this please.
is it because the preceeding style to noindent ( in the book html, is calibre6, which inherits from calibre5 which inherits... - do I have to backtrack up that structure and/or place the .noindent definition elsewhere in the css ?