Centering images in iPad mini/iBooks/iOS8

[AlexBell]

Originally Posted by adv_dp_fan

Just updated my my iPad mini to iOS 8.1 and it fixed the issues I was having with iBooks. Might check yours again.

I have iOS8.2 on my iPad mini. I checked this afternoon with another ebook I had designed and tested some time ago, and in which the images were centered. The images were left aligned. I think the problem is with iBooks, not iOS.

[adv_dp_fan]

Originally Posted by AlexBell

I have iOS8.2 on my iPad mini. I checked this afternoon with another ebook I had designed and tested some time ago, and in which the images were centered. The images were left aligned. I think the problem is with iBooks, not iOS.

8.2 or 8.0.2? Current non-beta is 8.1 which was just released Monday. And yes, the problem is with iBooks but now that iBooks is a built in app with iOS, you can only get an update of iBooks when they release a new update of iOS. Thus the suggestion to check since they just updated.

[AlexBell]

Originally Posted by adv_dp_fan

8.2 or 8.0.2? Current non-beta is 8.1 which was just released Monday. And yes, the problem is with iBooks but now that iBooks is a built in app with iOS, you can only get an update of iBooks when they release a new update of iOS. Thus the suggestion to check since they just updated.

You are perfectly correct on both counts.

Launceston is a long way away from Apple headquarters, so the iOS8.1 upgrade did not arrive till this afternoon.

After installing my iPad mini now centres images just as it did before the latest round of upgrades - without any changes needed to the CSS.

Thanks again.

[dgatwood]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

This would not work on the majority of the readers out there. The auto value is converted to 0 for margins on those. That is not even a mistake, the specs allow that.

I would argue that it is a mistake, just a mistake made when they authored the broken specification.

I suspect that when they wrote that, they meant to allow the zeroing behavior defined in the CSS spec, not for readers to just ignore "auto". But as usual, if you give them an inch....

The good news is that I'm not seeing that text in EPUB 3, so perhaps someday soon, we'll be rid of that brain damage.