What are the reasons kindle previewer wont show the blue clickable link on a chapter?

[Crabsauce1]

I made a thread in sigil:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=314714

But i'm trying to understand why kindle previewer is not showing a blue clickable hyperlink to the chapter in the toc? It shows greyed out but in sigil it shows a blue clickable link to the chapter....

What could be the reasons?

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by Crabsauce1

But i'm trying to understand why kindle previewer is not showing a blue clickable hyperlink to the chapter in the toc? It shows greyed out but in sigil it shows a blue clickable link to the chapter....

It'll be hard to narrow down your problem without seeing the HTML TOC code. Post two TOC entries and the new TOC entry that you added to the existing TOC. If the TOC entries have class attributes, also post the contents of the class attributes. For example:

<p class="contents"><a href="../Text/hp01_ch001_en-gb.html#hp1_ch1">ONE</a></p>
<p class="contents"><a href="../Text/hp01_ch002_en-gb.html#hp1_ch2">TWO</a></p>

.contents{text-align:center;text-indent:0;}

BTW, if the Table of Contents menu item in the Navigation menu is greyed out, the <guide> section in content.opf doesn't contain a toc entry or the href attribute points to a non-existing file.

You can detect this and other common problems by checking your book with the IDPF online validator or my EPUBCheck Sigil plugin.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Crabsauce1

I made a thread in sigil:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=314714

But i'm trying to understand why kindle previewer is not showing a blue clickable hyperlink to the chapter in the toc? It shows greyed out but in sigil it shows a blue clickable link to the chapter....

What could be the reasons?

Well, your post in the Sigil forum seems to contradict itself. In one place, you say it's not a blue clickable link, then you say it is, but that the styling isn't the same.

First, are you certain that you're viewing the toc.html TOC? Or are you viewing the NCX? Do you know?

And what, exactly, is the behavior you're trying to fix? When you add a TOC item, in Sigil, you seem to be getting what you expect--a link in the TOC that goes to the chapter. But then you, what, dump the ePUB into Kindle Previewer, and you're saying that when you do that, the link in the TOC that you created using Sigil no longer works? You can't click it? And do you mean the TOC that you can flip to, or do you mean the TOC displayed on the left? (Those aren't the same things.)

OR, do you mean that it's simply not the same color and font? If that's the problem, Doits has shown you what to do.

Screenshots would help.

Hitch