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024 Adding custom HTML tags to EPUB/HTML exports

024 Adding custom HTML tags to EPUB/HTML exports - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

024 Adding custom HTML tags to EPUB/HTML exports

Anne-Marie Concepcion: One of the neat new features in InDesign CS5.5 is the ability to map your paragraph styles and character styles to CSS styles. And that goes into effect when you export a document to EPUB or HTML. And let me show you why that might be useful, with a very simple example. We have a one-page document that has just text and the text has been styled with paragraph styles. We have First and then body. Most of these paragraphs are styled with body. We have a pull quote that's been styled with pull quote, some bullets, and some other text. What we are going to do is we are going to export this to EPUB without mapping any styles first and see what it looks like. And then we will try mapping one of the styles to a certain CSS rule that we will talk about and see how it looks differently and then I think you'll understand why this is such a fantastic feature for people who are creating EPUBSs and HTML files out of their InDesign documents. Let's start out by making a…

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