Underlined Words at the Beginning of a Chapter

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Why bother? All the Modify does is to remove the excessive span's; it has ZERO effect on the issue; the <a id=....> .... </a> wrapping the entire first paragraph.

Because it's fairly fast and it makes the code a lot easier to look at.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Ripplinger

The <a> normally denotes that the line contains a link. Where you're seeing the lines is simply from bad code in the book. It's saying the line is a link, yet it gives no actual working link. But I've seen <a id=xxx> in books and don't believe I've seen that problem on my Kobo at all. I'll have to try and dig up a book with it in and see how the Glo handles it.

If the </a> immediately follows the <a whatever> or they use the <a whatever /> form, you don't see the issue. My personal preference is to strip out all the unnecessary code in which I include <a id="page123"> tags.

[Ripplinger]

Originally Posted by DNSB

If the </a> immediately follows the <a whatever> or they use the <a whatever /> form, you don't see the issue. My personal preference is to strip out all the unnecessary code in which I include <a id="page123"> tags.

Thanks for that explanation why I've never noticed it before. I couldn't find a book just randomly picking through them with that line of code in it, so you saved me that hassle!

[AlexBell]

Could I suggest, Bermudagirl, that you complain to both Kobo and to the publisher? My wife bought an ebook from Kobo in which the line spacing was so narrow that letters with descenders overlapped letters with ascenders in the line below, and I couldn't increase line spacing. The HTML and CSS were so bizarre that I couldn't understand them.

Kobo acknowledged there was a problem (after I got them to look at the ebook on a Kobo, not just the desktop reader) and offered a refund. The publisher acknowledged the fault, thanked me, sent a complimentary copy, and said they'd make sure it didn't happen again.

[Bermudagirl]

Thanks Alex. Can't remember where I got the book at the moment though...