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Originally Posted by repilo

When I want a single image on a page I use the following styles.
To centre the image vertically, depending on its height I use a class that has the appropriate top margin (alone00 for none, alone10 por 10%, etc).

[... <figcaption> code ...]

I just described all this a few days ago in:

• 2022: "<caption> In Tables"

I warn about using too much of HTML5-specific markup + go over all the details.

Also see:

• 2020: "Remove empty space at the bottom of page before figure."

where all this image+caption stuff was described in extreme detail. (With links to TONS of other threads on the topic.)

Originally Posted by DNSB

[...] some of people offering the advice that you don't want to take are professionals in the ebook field.

My opinion as someone who has read and formatted quite a few ebooks over the years is that most professional ebooks are not well formatted. One friend of mine was of the opinion that most of the "professionals" were hired not for their knowledge but for how cheaply they could be hired

[...] many ebooks produced by the Big Five and most other publishers are not great teaching tools for anyone wanting to learn CSS. [...]

Yep, yep, yep.

As always, I point back to my:

• 2020: "Colored Text, EPUB, Android Dark Mode"

especially the absolutely fantastic talk given by an editor from Houghton-Mifflin:

• ebookcraft 2019: "Building Ebooks that Last"

Guess who gets hired to clean up the trash in the backlog?

Guess who teaches lessons on how not to let crap get into your ebooks in the first place?

Guess who's seen with and dealt with a lot of the junk code + had to correct it?

But that's okay, don't listen to any lessons from the true experts who clean up the mess in those "professional" ebooks!

Originally Posted by LostOnTheLine

I simply want a simple, automatable way to remove some problems & not have to spend a lot of time editing the books. I mean, the whole thread is about how to save time[...].

Sigil's "Saved Searches" are fantastic:

• Tools > Saved Searches

You have common crap across all 20 of your ebooks? Great, come up with some helpful list of search/replaces to help you spot+remove the junk.

For an easy explanation, see the little posts I wrote a few months ago:

• 2022: "Multiple changes in batch"
• 2022: "Remove Italic Tags from Selection?"

There will never be a fully automatable, one-button press solution, because every ebook is going to have completely different innards. The best you can do is automate some of these cleanup steps, but it'll still require a close look + elbow grease.