From the course: EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
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Tricking InDesign into exporting HTML5 - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
Tricking InDesign into exporting HTML5
- [Instructor] Tricking InDesign into exporting HTML5 is going to be your new super power. It is possible to get InDesign to export HTML5 text. It involves some shenanigans because InDesign's defaults work counter to the goal of clean HTML. So, any HTML chunk should be in a section tag. Sub headers and subsequent content should be in a nested section tag. So let's see what this looks like. In this InDesign file, there is a chapter and a chapter title and some content. And then later on there's another chapter number and another chapter title and some content. So when I export this to EPUB, it's going to reflect the original structure without much remediation, I haven't cleaned this up. Let's have a quick look at what that looks like. So this is a file that I exported a little while ago and this is what it looks like. There's the header and here's the body, Here's the image that was on that first page and the illustration has gone aside from it. There's lots of divs. Let's look at this…
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