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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
If you are planning to use this css for books to re-distribute, most folks will also tell you not to set a font color, or at least to be very judicious with your colors. If you set it to black, and the user wants to read white text on a black background, s/he will be out of luck for those specific words. Better to use color: inherit for things like links (if you want to kill the blue). You will probably get away with different tones of gray, but black and white are treacherous.
Of course, if this is only for your own use, you only have to please your own eyes.
A nice concept for experimentation! I will do some checking when I get home.
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I agree. I have set font colors within this book because I'm still experimenting with the "cascading" aspect of CSS. I generally set an extremely ugly color just to see where it shows up. I've had some surprising results. Well, surprising to me.
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Originally Posted by theducks
IIRC Flight-crew never validated a Stylesheet, only the XHTML. And then, only checked inline styles for parsing errors.
Right -click on the CSS filename (in Sigil): Validate with W3C
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That's a very helpful piece of information. Thank you!
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't accept the basic premise that it's a good thing for all books to look the same. Printed books don't, so why should ebooks? Let publishers and authors express a bit of individuality.
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And complete vanilla or completely standardized books is not what I'm advocating. What I
am advocating is that when the publishers and authors express their individuality, that that expression actually comes across to the reader the way they planned.
Thanks everyone for taking an interest here. I'm learning, and I hope I've opened a door for others to learn as well.