Tinted backgrounds boxes - epub and Mobi

DanBenton · 01-28-2011, 07:59 AM

Hi

A pretty dull question to start off, so apologies to any casual readers.
Trying to get my head around what I need to do to make epub files that can export reasonably easily to Mobi.
Kindle spacing is a bit of an issue but that's quick to fix; the thing that's really bugging me is spacing on div boxes with a background colour: the spacing looks fine in epub, but as soon as I convert the file to Mobi and display on Kindle Previewer for iPad, the box tint starts right on the heels of the previous paragraph and then cuts off immediately at the end of the boxed text.
I've tried various combinations of margin- and padding-top/bottom but with no luck. The only reliable way I found of doing it keeping the margins at 0 and then adding a para with a non-breaking space before and after, but that can't be the only way of doing it. What am I missing?!
Thanks for bearing with!
Dan

Jellby · 01-28-2011, 08:22 AM

The Mobipocket format, and probably its box model, is very simple. All vertical spacing is done through the "height" property, which equals top-margin, or top-padding, it seems. I wouldn't be surprised if your solution is the only working one.

01-28-2011, 07:59 AM	#1
DanBenton Member Posts: 17 Karma: 20 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: London Device: Kindle	Tinted backgrounds boxes - epub and Mobi Hi A pretty dull question to start off, so apologies to any casual readers. Trying to get my head around what I need to do to make epub files that can export reasonably easily to Mobi. Kindle spacing is a bit of an issue but that's quick to fix; the thing that's really bugging me is spacing on div boxes with a background colour: the spacing looks fine in epub, but as soon as I convert the file to Mobi and display on Kindle Previewer for iPad, the box tint starts right on the heels of the previous paragraph and then cuts off immediately at the end of the boxed text. I've tried various combinations of margin- and padding-top/bottom but with no luck. The only reliable way I found of doing it keeping the margins at 0 and then adding a para with a non-breaking space before and after, but that can't be the only way of doing it. What am I missing?! Thanks for bearing with! Dan

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01-28-2011, 08:22 AM	#2
Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,516 Karma: 18512745 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	The Mobipocket format, and probably its box model, is very simple. All vertical spacing is done through the "height" property, which equals top-margin, or top-padding, it seems. I wouldn't be surprised if your solution is the only working one.

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