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Old 03-22-2019, 03:20 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Princess kindle View Post
hello, thanks for answering so soon.
The problem is that I do not code or ccs I dont understand nothing of this. I will start by learning ccs and programming.
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Theducks is on the right track (as usual). Here are some even more basic suggestions.

E-book html and CSS is a small, very tiny, subset of the whole big subject. If all you want to do is fix books, don't bother trying to learn web-page coding: you will blow your brains out. That is a whole career.

My starting advice: find a simple book you like. Open it in the editor. Look at a paragraph that works for you...the paragraph will be something like: <p class="something">..text..</p> in the code pane. Open the Live CSS pane, and find the entry related to the <p class="something"> code -- it will probably start with a line ".something {". You will see lines for font-size, margins, indents, and so on, though not all of them all the time.

Use Kovid's excellent user manual to guide you around the editor--the different menus and panes.

Try changing some of the factors. For example, if you see "text-align: justify;", try changing the "justify" to "left" or "right" and see what happens to the text in the preview pane. Or maybe "text-indent: 24px", change it to "text-indent: 240px;" and watch it change. Just play with this for an hour or two, and you should get a feel for how it works. Just don't hit the save button if you mess it up---just close without saving.

It's not all that simple, but that's a good way to start. When you have a feel for it, look at a book you don't like, and see if you can adjust to coding to match the book you do like. Copy and paste a lot until you learn the syntax. THEN go to W3S or some other html learning site and start to look up what you have been playing with.

Just a way to get started; it got me going years ago.

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