From the course: InDesign CC to EPUB (2018)

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Map text styles to HTML and CSS tags

Map text styles to HTML and CSS tags

From the course: InDesign CC to EPUB (2018)

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Map text styles to HTML and CSS tags

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- [Instructor] Now, as you know by now, you should be styling everything in your InDesign document with the paragraph or character style, and that when you export to EPUB, InDesign converts those style attributes to the closest equivalent it can in cascading style sheets, which is how an EPUB applies formatting to text and images, but that is just scratching the surface. Now, in this video, I wanna show you some simple steps that you can take to improve on the CSS that InDesign exports, and point you to some new features that you might wanna work with your web or CSS or eBook developer to do even more major conversion interventions that will help you be able to spit out a whole bunch of EPUB's that look great and act great and are using custom settings. So, let's start with the simple thing. First of all, notice my cursor's blinking in the chapter title and it's got the chapter title style, yay. But when I export this to EPUB, in the EPUB, it's just going to say, "This is a paragraph,…

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