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AlexBell · 07-03-2009, 07:01 AM

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And I applied thinkjuice (caffeine suspensions) to the problem of epigrams (and pullquotes, too) and realized that blockquotes were the answer. They can contain paragraphs, and CSS will let you do anything that you can do to divs.

I think you'll find that there are differences between the Mobipocket version of HTML and real HTML set out according to W3C standards. One of them is that W3C standards require that you put text in tags in blockquotes - like
<blockquote>
line of text
</blockquote>
But if you do that then Mobipocket will not indent the text, which is the whole point of using blockquote. Mobipocket requires that you not use a tag, which means that the HTML will not validate.

I look forward to the day when ePub becomes the format of choice, and expect that it will use valid HTML. So I am trying to use valid HTML.

Regards, Alex

07-03-2009, 07:01 AM	#54
AlexBell Wizard Posts: 3,413 Karma: 13369310 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Launceston, Tasmania Device: Sony PRS T3, Kobo Glo, Kindle Touch, iPad, Samsung SB 2 tablet	[QUOTE=rogue_ronin;511121] And I applied thinkjuice (caffeine suspensions) to the problem of epigrams (and pullquotes, too) and realized that blockquotes were the answer. They can contain paragraphs, and CSS will let you do anything that you can do to divs. I think you'll find that there are differences between the Mobipocket version of HTML and real HTML set out according to W3C standards. One of them is that W3C standards require that you put text in <p></p> tags in blockquotes - like <blockquote> <p>line of text</p> </blockquote> But if you do that then Mobipocket will not indent the text, which is the whole point of using blockquote. Mobipocket requires that you not use a <p></p> tag, which means that the HTML will not validate. I look forward to the day when ePub becomes the format of choice, and expect that it will use valid HTML. So I am trying to use valid HTML. Regards, Alex