Assigning custom style sheets to a particular book

birkmaggs · 01-30-2018, 12:06 AM

Is there a way to create a style sheet for a book and permanently assign it to that book such that the custom styles load automatically when the book loads?

kovidgoyal · 01-30-2018, 12:39 AM

Open it in the editor and copy paste your stylesheet at the bottom of its existing stylesheet.

JSWolf · 01-30-2018, 05:22 AM

How do you know your custom style sheet will actually work with that book? Are you sure all the class names your sheet is using will exist in the style sheet of this book?

theducks · 01-30-2018, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

How do you know your custom style sheet will actually work with that book? Are you sure all the class names your sheet is using will exist in the style sheet of this book?

+1
Why do people assume that a Their Generic stylesheet will line up?
The only case would be for / applied to bare tags: <p>,<div>,<h3>...

In addition to replacement as suggested by Kovid.
You can ADD a second (or more) stylesheet to the book and LINK them to selected files, using the editors right-click in the filelist, menu.
Remember that any sheet not linked at that time, will be UN-linked from those files.

JSWolf · 01-30-2018, 03:29 PM

What you are best to do is to load the eBook into the editor and remove all unused CSS. The have a look at the CSS and make changes as you want.

birkmaggs · 01-30-2018, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Open it in the editor and copy paste your stylesheet at the bottom of its existing stylesheet.

This worked well thank you. However, as someone mentioned above, you have to remember to LINK the style sheet to the all the html files by selecting them and right clicking.

birkmaggs · 01-30-2018, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by theducks

+1

In addition to replacement as suggested by Kovid.
You can ADD a second (or more) stylesheet to the book and LINK them to selected files, using the editors right-click in the filelist, menu.
Remember that any sheet not linked at that time, will be UN-linked from those files.

Thank God you mentioned this because I would have spent HOURS trying to figure this out.

theducks · 01-30-2018, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by birkmaggs

Thank God you mentioned this because I would have spent HOURS trying to figure this out.

No prob. When I joined the crowd here, I had only done the most basic of HTML (no stylesheet back then). Lots of reverse engineering done

birkmaggs · 02-01-2018, 06:48 PM

I build websites so style sheets I have been familiar with for a while. It's a drag when you start out, but it gets fun when you realize how much you can do.

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birkmaggs Connoisseur Posts: 79 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2014 Device: galaxy 2	Assigning custom style sheets to a particular book Is there a way to create a style sheet for a book and permanently assign it to that book such that the custom styles load automatically when the book loads?

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kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,345 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Open it in the editor and copy paste your stylesheet at the bottom of its existing stylesheet.

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JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 79,745 Karma: 145864619 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	How do you know your custom style sheet will actually work with that book? Are you sure all the class names your sheet is using will exist in the style sheet of this book?

01-30-2018, 03:29 PM	#5
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 79,745 Karma: 145864619 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	What you are best to do is to load the eBook into the editor and remove all unused CSS. The have a look at the CSS and make changes as you want.

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