Inline Styles and Overrides

ukzembla · 01-17-2012, 09:54 AM

Hi,

I have a paragraph which is styled as italic in the CSS. But for some reason (on the Kindle at any rate) it won't override the parent setting in a span - so if I set a paragraph as italic, it won't let me use any roman characters in the paragraph. This seems pretty stupid to me, or am I doing something wrong?

This is roman text

It's even the same if everything is manually styled inline:

This is roman text

Thanks,

Alex

susan_cassidy · 01-17-2012, 12:19 PM

It is going to depend on how smart the software that converts your HTML is. .mobi format does not support css directly, so the HTML and CSS have to be translated to very basic HTML for it to show up on the Kindle.

ukzembla · 01-18-2012, 07:06 AM

Wouldn't you say the second example above, with inline styles for italics and normal text, counts as pretty basic? Should it work, at least in theory, on the Kindle? I'm using Kindlegen and my own custom pre-processing from ePub.

01-17-2012, 09:54 AM	#1
ukzembla Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Kindle	Inline Styles and Overrides Hi, I have a paragraph which is styled as italic in the CSS. But for some reason (on the Kindle at any rate) it won't override the parent setting in a span - so if I set a paragraph as italic, it won't let me use any roman characters in the paragraph. This seems pretty stupid to me, or am I doing something wrong? <p class="ital">This is <span class="roman">roman text</span></p> It's even the same if everything is manually styled inline: <p style="font-style:italic">This is <span style="font-style:normal">roman text</span></p> Thanks, Alex

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01-17-2012, 12:19 PM	#2
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	It is going to depend on how smart the software that converts your HTML is. .mobi format does not support css directly, so the HTML and CSS have to be translated to very basic HTML for it to show up on the Kindle.

01-18-2012, 07:06 AM	#3
ukzembla Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Kindle	Wouldn't you say the second example above, with inline styles for italics and normal text, counts as pretty basic? Should it work, at least in theory, on the Kindle? I'm using Kindlegen and my own custom pre-processing from ePub.

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