Get same style of css for all books in one series

3n4n · 09-28-2019, 03:05 AM

I have five books in A Song of Ice and Fire series. The first four of them have a certain set of styles, but the last one is different. Is there an easy way to automatically edit the books in a series to have exactly same styles.

By style, I mean the css styles used for a paragraph, or a bold letter. For example, the last book has the first letter of every chapter in bold format and I want an automatic way to edit all the books in that series to have same settings to have first letter in each chapter in bold format.

deback · 10-06-2019, 12:44 PM

Edit each book and manually edit (or add) the CSS code for the class you want to use for the first letter of each chapter title. There is no automatic way to do what you want to do, so you will have to manually edit or add the codes on each page for each chapter.

theducks · 10-06-2019, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by deback

Edit each book and manually edit (or add) the CSS code for the class you want to use for the first letter of each chapter title. There is no automatic way to do what you want to do, so you will have to manually edit or add the codes on each page for each chapter.

So true. Even if the Look was the same in the others, the assigned selectors may be different.
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Edit (the relevant place in the stylesheet is a lot easier than modifying the classes in the body of the work)

deback · 10-06-2019, 01:05 PM

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Edit (the relevant place in the stylesheet is a lot easier than modifying the classes in the body of the work)

That would be true if the class for the first letter of each chapter title already exists in the body of the work, but if the class doesn't exist for the first letter of each chapter title, then the class will have to be manually added in the body of the work for each chapter title (in addition to adding the class in the .css file).

JSWolf · 10-06-2019, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by deback

That would be true if the class for the first letter of each chapter title already exists in the body of the work, but if the class doesn't exist for the first letter of each chapter title, then the class will have to be manually added in the body of the work for each chapter title (in addition to adding the class in the .css file).

If you really want the last book to match the others, you'll need to load the last book and one of the others in two instances of the Editor so you can see the code for one while editing the other.

I hope you know CSS/HTML well enough to do this as there is no automated way to di this. It has to be done manually.

deback · 10-06-2019, 05:21 PM

He wants the first four books to match the fifth book, so he will have to manually edit all the chapter titles in the first four books. After he learns how to code with CSS, he should be able to quickly go through all the chapter titles in the first four books to add the coding for the first letter in each chapter title. Yes, opening the fifth book in the editor will show him how the code is written and what the CSS code should be in the stylesheet.css file.

09-28-2019, 03:05 AM	#1
3n4n Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2019 Device: none	Get same style of css for all books in one series I have five books in A Song of Ice and Fire series. The first four of them have a certain set of styles, but the last one is different. Is there an easy way to automatically edit the books in a series to have exactly same styles. By style, I mean the css styles used for a paragraph, or a bold letter. For example, the last book has the first letter of every chapter in bold format and I want an automatic way to edit all the books in that series to have same settings to have first letter in each chapter in bold format.

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10-06-2019, 12:44 PM	#2
deback Book E d i t o r Posts: 432 Karma: 288184 Join Date: May 2015 Device: Laptop	Edit each book and manually edit (or add) the CSS code for the class you want to use for the first letter of each chapter title. There is no automatic way to do what you want to do, so you will have to manually edit or add the codes on each page for each chapter.

10-06-2019, 05:21 PM	#6
deback Book E d i t o r Posts: 432 Karma: 288184 Join Date: May 2015 Device: Laptop	He wants the first four books to match the fifth book, so he will have to manually edit all the chapter titles in the first four books. After he learns how to code with CSS, he should be able to quickly go through all the chapter titles in the first four books to add the coding for the first letter in each chapter title. Yes, opening the fifth book in the editor will show him how the code is written and what the CSS code should be in the stylesheet.css file.

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