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rpresser · 03-08-2008, 12:10 AM

Here's how to do running headers in IMP books, entirely with HTML:

1. Add this to the <STYLE> section in the <HEAD> element:

Code:

   .header {display:none; display:oeb-page-head; margin-left:2.0em; margin-right:2.0em}
   .headleft {height:3.0ex; vertical-align:top; text-align:left; font-family:smallfont}
   .headright {height:3.0ex; vertical-align:top; text-align:right; font-family:smallfont}

2. Add this text on the page where you want the running header to start -- i.e., if you have a title page, put this after the <HR> that ends the title page:

Code:

<!-- Running Header -->
<table class="header" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td class="headleft">book title</td>
<td class="headright">book author</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" height="10"><hr /></td>
</tr>
</table>

This is (almost) straight out of the Gemstar OEB Formatting guide. Note that you could do almost anything instead of this rather plain header. Any block-level element (table, div, P, etc.) that has the style display:oeb-page-head can be your running header.

Cool, huh?

My apologies if this is already well known. I just couldn't find it explicitly mentioned anywhere, and the mobi2imp thread explicitly says that running headers aren't implemented. Maybe it could be incorporated into the perl script?

03-08-2008, 12:10 AM	#16
rpresser Member Posts: 18 Karma: 84 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: Ebookwise1150, Treo 600	Running Headers Here's how to do running headers in IMP books, entirely with HTML: 1. Add this to the <STYLE> section in the <HEAD> element: Code: .header {display:none; display:oeb-page-head; margin-left:2.0em; margin-right:2.0em} .headleft {height:3.0ex; vertical-align:top; text-align:left; font-family:smallfont} .headright {height:3.0ex; vertical-align:top; text-align:right; font-family:smallfont} 2. Add this text on the page where you want the running header to start -- i.e., if you have a title page, put this after the <HR> that ends the title page: Code: <!-- Running Header --> <table class="header" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td class="headleft">*book title</td> <td class="headright">book author</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="10"><hr /></td> </tr> </table> This is (almost) straight out of the Gemstar OEB Formatting guide. Note that you could do almost anything instead of this rather plain header. Any block-level element (table, div, P, etc.) that has the style display:oeb-page-head* can be your running header. Cool, huh? My apologies if this is already well known. I just couldn't find it explicitly mentioned anywhere, and the mobi2imp thread explicitly says that running headers aren't implemented. Maybe it could be incorporated into the perl script?