[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by soundsfromsound

If I share contents/code within an epub files, not the book text itself, is that not violating copyright laws somehow?

How would we all learn if we were not able to copy/emulate from others? It is just CSS. There is no problem with looking at the code and seeing how it works, and then ripping it right out of a book if you enjoy the look of it and want to use elsewhere!

Also, a lot of these larger publishers tend to put a HUGE "in-house" stylesheet to cover everything under the sun (and don't use 99% of it). I tend to look through those and see if I can spot any gems that I can use elsewhere.

Originally Posted by soundsfromsound

Tex, that image you shared is exactly what I want. What's the trick?

Trick? No trick!

Here is an earlier topic where someone wanted a "blog post" in their book. I attached a sample EPUB in Post #5, and images of its usage right out of the original book in post #10:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=218023

Here is also another book that I touched up for an author on MobileRead who was having odd formatting problems from B&N (with images + sample):

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...0&postcount=54

As you can see, I just used that initial code as a base, and built up from there.

So in your case, you probably just want to use something like this in your CSS:

div.textbox {
	background-color:#D1D3D4;
	border-bottom: 3px double;
	border-top: 3px double;
	border-left: 3px double;
	border-right: 3px double;
	padding: 1em;
}

and in your book, you want this:

<p>Stuff outside the box:</p>

<div class="textbox">
<p>Everything in the box here.</p>
<p>More stuff in the box.</p>
</div>

<p>Stuff after the box.</p>