Html->ePub, table and text alignment

yktan · 08-29-2013, 05:13 AM

Hi, I've got a bunch of html files that I want to convert to epub. In the html, I've got some text is in a table and I would like the whole table to be aligned in the center but the text aligned to the left. However, the table is always left aligned in the resulting epub. A sample of my html:

Code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="" xml:lang="">
  <head>
    <title>index</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
</head>
<body>
	<p align="center">
		<b><font size="5">
Title Centered
		</font></b>
	</p>
		<table align="center" style="text-align=left;">
			<tr><td>
The text in this section<br>
should be aligned to the left<br>
But the whole paragraph<br>
should be centered!
			</td></tr>
		</table>
	<p align="center">
		<img height="40%" src="abc.png"/>
	</p>
</body>
</html>

The converted html:

Code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="">
  <head>
    <title>index</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
  <link href="stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<link href="page_styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
</head>
  <body class="calibre">
	<p class="calibre1">
		<b class="calibre2"><span class="calibre3">
Title Centered
		</span></b>
	</p>
		<table class="calibre4">
			<tbody class="calibre5"><tr class="calibre6"><td class="calibre7">
The text in this section<br class="calibre8"/>
should be aligned to the left<br class="calibre8"/>
But the whole paragraph<br class="calibre8"/>
should be centered!
			</td></tr>
		</tbody></table>
	<p class="calibre1">
		<img src="abc.png" class="calibre9"/>
	</p>


</body></html>

stylesheet.css:

Code:

.calibre {
    display: block;
    font-size: 1em;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: 5pt;
    margin-right: 5pt;
    margin-top: 0;
    padding-left: 0;
    padding-right: 0
    }
.calibre1 {
    display: block;
    margin-bottom: 1em;
    margin-left: 0;
    margin-right: 0;
    margin-top: 1em;
    text-align: center
    }
.calibre2 {
    font-weight: bold
    }
.calibre3 {
    font-size: 1.41667em;
    line-height: 1.2
    }
.calibre4 {
    border-collapse: separate;
    border-spacing: 2px;
    display: table;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-top: 0;
    text-align: center;
    text-indent: 0
    }
.calibre5 {
    display: table-row-group;
    vertical-align: middle
    }
.calibre6 {
    display: table-row;
    vertical-align: inherit
    }
.calibre7 {
    display: table-cell;
    padding-bottom: 1px;
    padding-left: 1px;
    padding-right: 1px;
    padding-top: 1px;
    text-align: inherit;
    vertical-align: inherit
    }
.calibre8 {
    display: block
    }
.calibre9 {
    height: 40%;
    width: auto
    }

page_style.css:

Code:

@page {
    margin-bottom: 5pt;
    margin-top: 5pt
    }

How can I edit my input HTML files so that it is converted correctly to epub and azw3? Thank you very much!

yktan · 08-29-2013, 05:42 AM

I found the answer (using blockquotes) from a thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=173888
Should have searched more

For future reference, the way to achieve what I need is:

Code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="" xml:lang="">
  <head>
    <title>index</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
</head>
<body>
	<p align="center">
		<b><font size="5">
Title Centered
		</font></b>
	</p>
<blockquote class="ieverse">
  <pre style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;display: inline-block;">The text in this section
should be aligned to the left
But the whole paragraph
should be centered!</span></pre>
</blockquote>
	<p align="center">
		<img height="40%" src="abc.png"/>
	</p>
</body>
</html>

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