Increase top and bottom margins

[fabianmoreno01]

Hello!

I'm looking to increase the top and bottoms margins so that the first and last lines aren't so close to the edges.

I've seen another thread on this topic (link below) which suggests to inject the following code into each book. I'l happily do it, I just don't see where to inject it.

Any directions? Thank you!

@page { 
margin-top:10pt; 
margin-bottom:10pt; 
}

Source: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=287043

[davidfor]

Your book should have a stylesheet. Add it to that. But check if it is already there. It is fairly common, especially for books that have been through a calibre conversion, to have a stylesheet called "page_styles.css" that has an @page style in it.

[fabianmoreno01]

Thanks @davidfor! There was no page_styles.css sheet so I created one but I get no result...

I'm adding two screenshots as attachments to this message. Is my coding correct and which of these two area should I put the code at?

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by fabianmoreno01

Thanks @davidfor! There was no page_styles.css sheet so I created one but I get no result...

I'm adding two screenshots as attachments to this message. Is my coding correct and which of these two area should I put the code at?

First: try adding your margins to the BODY element. This tends to work better:

body { 
margin-top:10pt; 
margin-bottom:10pt; 
}

Also, looking at your first picture, you used "page" instead of "@page". Then, you added a new CSS file (page_styles.css) but it was not linked to your HTML files.

Every time you create a new CSS file, you need to link it to your HTML file. You can tell the Editor to link it for you:

1) Select all the HTML files you want to apply these rules (margins-top and bottom)
2) Right click and choose "Link stylesheets"
3) Mark the stylesheets that should be applied
4) Uncheck the "Remove existing links to stylesheets", to avoid breaking things.

[fabianmoreno01]

Thank you @thiago.eec this is precious information and I'll get back to my copy!