What does epub:type="chapter" mean?

phossler · 11-23-2015, 04:19 PM

I only do the very basics with CSS and the editor, usually just enough to fix the book clean enough to be read able on the Kindle

I found this in one of them and it used <section> which I had never seen before W3Schools explained that, but I could not find anything about the the 'epub:type="chapter" ' part and what it means or does.

Can someone explain or point me to an explanation?

Thanks

Code:

<body>

  <section epub:type="chapter" title="CHAPTER">

    <div>

      <h2> ...... </h2>

    </div>

  </section>

</body>

davidfor · 11-23-2015, 06:24 PM

It means the book is ePub3. Beyond having seen that in a glance through the epub3 specs, I don't know anything. I think a search is what you need to do.

phossler · 11-23-2015, 07:08 PM

thanks -- the pointer to epub3 helped. It's apparently something to do with accessability

http://www.idpf.org/accessibility/gu.../epub-type.php

Quote:

To make ebooks more accessible, you need to consider that many readers will be interacting with the content in non-visual ways, and for that reason the logical reading order must be defined at the markup level. To facilitate this discovery, EPUB 3 includes a new epub:type attribute that allows more precise meanings to be applied to the generic tags, a process called semantic inflection.

JSWolf · 11-23-2015, 07:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phossler

thanks -- the pointer to epub3 helped. It's apparently something to do with accessability

http://www.idpf.org/accessibility/gu.../epub-type.php

In plain English, it's a load of rubbish. It does nothing for anyone. It's just extra code that is meaningless. In ePub 2 there is the guide in the OPF which says what the order is. There's no need for this section garbage. It's just another useless feature added to ePub 3. ePub 3 still has the guide in the OPF and that works perfectly to specify the order of the XML files. You can get rid of the section tags without any loss of functionality.

What I have been doing with these new ePub 3 is converting them back to ePub 2 as they have nothing in them that cannot be done with ePub 2. It just makes the code more convoluted to go ePub 3 for no good reason.

11-23-2015, 04:19 PM	#1
phossler Wizard Posts: 1,087 Karma: 447222 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Valley Forge, PA, USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite	What does epub:type="chapter" mean? I only do the very basics with CSS and the editor, usually just enough to fix the book clean enough to be read able on the Kindle I found this in one of them and it used <section> which I had never seen before W3Schools explained that, but I could not find anything about the the 'epub:type="chapter" ' part and what it means or does. Can someone explain or point me to an explanation? Thanks Code: <body> <section epub:type="chapter" title="CHAPTER"> <div> <h2> ...... </h2> </div> </section> </body>

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davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	It means the book is ePub3. Beyond having seen that in a glance through the epub3 specs, I don't know anything. I think a search is what you need to do.