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Old 06-07-2017, 07:30 PM   #14
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What are these rare cases?
There are HTML display engines with bugs. One of them ignores <style> elements.

So, for this HTML engine, if you want to do a quick one-off styling, you have to use inline styles. The only time I have found it really matters is in the cover page created by Calibre, which uses the <style> element at the top of the page to center the image.

Every EPUB I clean up, I do so with least-common-denominator HTML and CSS, so that it works on the widest possible number of devices/engines. I lose a few things I would like to have, but none are very crucial.
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