Adding a Style to an entire book

MountainMan1 · 03-15-2017, 08:53 AM

I am not very knowledgeable about HTML editing and CSS and such. I have just found a style that can be added to an HTML document in the <head> block, and it will apply the style to the whole document. This one kind of lets you have tabs, using the em; HTML tag.

I don't want to have to put this into the header of every page manually, and I don't know how to write a CSS stylesheet. I was wondering if there was any way to put this in one of the text files and have it work in all the rest of the text files.

Here is an example of the code :

Code:

          <style type="text/css">
            dummydeclaration { padding-left: 4em; } /* Firefox ignores first declaration for some reason */
            tab1 { padding-left: 4em; }
            tab2 { padding-left: 8em; }
            tab3 { padding-left: 12em; }
          </style>

If you put that into the header, you can have tabs with the em; tag, just by putting <tab1> your paragraph of text </tab1> in each spot where you want to have a tab in the text such as the beginning of a paragraph.

I asked another question about having Editor insert tabs here in the forum, but if Editor can't do that for me then I can use this. I will put it in the <head> of every page if I have to, was just hoping that there might be some way to put it in one page and have it work for all of the rest. Thanks

Phssthpok · 03-24-2017, 05:21 AM

Put the styles in a CSS file (press the "add file" button in the top left and call the file something.css, then copy all the rules between <style> and </style> into the new file), then just select all the HTML files, right-click and select "Link stylesheets", then select your CSS file to be linked to all the HTML files.

4em is a pretty huge indent, IMHO.

MountainMan1 · 04-19-2017, 08:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phssthpok

Put the styles in a CSS file (press the "add file" button in the top left and call the file something.css, then copy all the rules between <style> and </style> into the new file), then just select all the HTML files, right-click and select "Link stylesheets", then select your CSS file to be linked to all the HTML files.

4em is a pretty huge indent, IMHO.

Yes, it is a large indent, on the forum or site where I found that style technique the original poster had a long list of them. I think the subject was about indents in HTML documents, and if I remember correctly the poster may have said he had a number of indents progressively larger so that he could have data in rows and columns and keep it looking neat. Something like that.

HTML doesn't have 'native' tabs, so this was someone's work-around for that. Of course you can use tables, but some people don't want or need to use tables in a particular HTML document, and the poster showed this as a way not to have to put a table into the document if you didn't want to.

I believe that was the purpose, don't remember where I stumbled across this technique so can't really say for sure.

Edit: Phssthpok, I gave you some Karma for the helpful post, but I don't know for sure how the KARMA system works here, so I don't know if giving you 10 KARMA was good or bad, my intentions were to the good though

theducks · 04-19-2017, 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MountainMan1

Edit: Phssthpok, I gave you some Karma for the helpful post, but I don't know for sure how the KARMA system works here, so I don't know if giving you 10 KARMA was good or bad, my intentions were to the good though

There is no BAD Karma at MR, so it is all good. the longer you participate here , the more Karma you will be able to award (you can reduce the suggested amount) 99 K (so you don't get a swell head right off

)coming your way

03-15-2017, 08:53 AM	#1
MountainMan1 Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 18320 Join Date: Feb 2017 Device: None	Adding a Style to an entire book I am not very knowledgeable about HTML editing and CSS and such. I have just found a style that can be added to an HTML document in the <head> block, and it will apply the style to the whole document. This one kind of lets you have tabs, using the em; HTML tag. I don't want to have to put this into the header of every page manually, and I don't know how to write a CSS stylesheet. I was wondering if there was any way to put this in one of the text files and have it work in all the rest of the text files. Here is an example of the code : Code: <style type="text/css"> dummydeclaration { padding-left: 4em; } /* Firefox ignores first declaration for some reason */ tab1 { padding-left: 4em; } tab2 { padding-left: 8em; } tab3 { padding-left: 12em; } </style> If you put that into the header, you can have tabs with the em; tag, just by putting <tab1> your paragraph of text </tab1> in each spot where you want to have a tab in the text such as the beginning of a paragraph. I asked another question about having Editor insert tabs here in the forum, but if Editor can't do that for me then I can use this. I will put it in the <head> of every page if I have to, was just hoping that there might be some way to put it in one page and have it work for all of the rest. Thanks

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03-24-2017, 05:21 AM	#2
Phssthpok Age improves with wine. Posts: 571 Karma: 95229 Join Date: Nov 2014 Device: Kindle Oasis, Kobo Libra II	Put the styles in a CSS file (press the "add file" button in the top left and call the file something.css, then copy all the rules between <style> and </style> into the new file), then just select all the HTML files, right-click and select "Link stylesheets", then select your CSS file to be linked to all the HTML files. 4em is a pretty huge indent, IMHO.