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il mietitore · 10-27-2024, 01:45 PM

After further investigations I discovered that I must be incurring in what is described here:

Warning: Hyperlinked content not using the epub:type attribute footnote or endnote will display as a pop-up on Kobo's iOS and eInk platforms in cases where all the following criteria are met.

The link references a location in the EPUB and also references a specific node within the HTML. Ex.
Code:
```
<a href="chapter.html#uniqueID">link text</a>
```
Where chapter.html is a file within this EPUB and where uniqueID is the id of a node within that html document.
The content in the node is nine characters or more once stripped of the HTML tags. Ex.
Code:
```
<p id="uniqueID">123456789</p>
```
The node being linked to is less than or equal to 5000 characters.
The location being linked to comes after the location being linked from. Ex. A reference in Chapter 2 links to a location at the end of the file titled Endnotes or a reference at the beginning of Chapter 2 links to a location at the end of Chapter 2.

Actually that is not correct: this happens to me also with backlinks going back from the same chapter and to links that do not target a specific ID. It's very, very annoying to be stuck with this situation. I also tried to use attributes such as

Code:

epub:type="backlink"

for the backlinks but this doesn't change the behaviour of the kobo.

The only solution I see is to revert to a normal EPUB ad to place every note in a specific chapter. Though, with normal EPUBs, I'm currently unable to use small caps.

10-27-2024, 01:45 PM	#11
il mietitore Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2021 Device: none	After further investigations I discovered that I must be incurring in what is described here: Warning: Hyperlinked content not using the epub:type attribute footnote or endnote will display as a pop-up on Kobo's iOS and eInk platforms in cases where all the following criteria are met. The link references a location in the EPUB and also references a specific node within the HTML. Ex. Code: <a href="chapter.html#uniqueID">link text</a> Where chapter.html is a file within this EPUB and where uniqueID is the id of a node within that html document. The content in the node is nine characters or more once stripped of the HTML tags. Ex. Code: <p id="uniqueID">123456789</p> The node being linked to is less than or equal to 5000 characters. The location being linked to comes after the location being linked from. Ex. A reference in Chapter 2 links to a location at the end of the file titled Endnotes or a reference at the beginning of Chapter 2 links to a location at the end of Chapter 2. Actually that is not correct: this happens to me also with backlinks going back from the same chapter and to links that do not target a specific ID. It's very, very annoying to be stuck with this situation. I also tried to use attributes such as Code: epub:type="backlink" for the backlinks but this doesn't change the behaviour of the kobo. The only solution I see is to revert to a normal EPUB ad to place every note in a specific chapter. Though, with normal EPUBs, I'm currently unable to use small caps.