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InDesign table export - InDesign Tutorial

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InDesign table export

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- [Instructor] Since we're talking about tables, this is a good place to pause for this message. Be very wary of InDesign's table export. As with many InDesign to EPUB things, the markup that it produces is overwrought, even on tables that are cleanly-styled with cell and table styles. So let's go back and look at the table that we were in. This table is very cleanly styled. So if we open up the style menu for tables, you can see that it has a table style and it has cell styles. Everything is as clean as a whistle. When I export this to EPUB, things go a bit pear-shaped. So export it to EPUB, table sample, place it where I wanna place it, et cetera. Let's go over to Oxygen and look at that table. So this is the HTML. And this is the table. These cells in the header have so much going on. There is one, two, three, four separate classes applied to each cell. In some of 'em, there's even more. There's a heck of a lot going on. it's extremely overwrought HTML. It's gonna be hard to know…

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