All text becomes a link (kepub only)

[patrik]

A retail epub works fine as epub, but when converted to kepub (either by the calibre plugin, or by kepubify) all the text becomes a link.

Every chapter title looks something like this:

<p class="CT" id="ch04_ch_001"><a href="ch04.xhtml#tocch04_ch_001"><span class="ChapLabel">4</span>Title text</a></p>

p.CT {
  font-family: sans-serif;
  font-size: 140%;
  margin-left: 0em;
  margin-top: 1em;
  margin-bottom: 2.5em;
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: bold;
  text-align: center;
  line-height: 1.2em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
}

It's this link that gets followed when the text in the chapter gets clicked on.

I have tried to remove various things, divs and what not, but so far I haven't understood what is causing this. (Removing the href from the title works of course.)

Tested on two different Kobo models.

Any idea?

[Quoth]

I'd use a Regex or something to make look like this.
<h2 class="ChapLabel" id="ch04_ch_001">Title text</h2>

Chapter heads should be <h
No need for links or spans in a chapter title, even if two lines:
<h2 class="ChapLabel" id="ch04_ch_001">Chapter 4<br/>
Chapter Name Text</h2>

level 1, 2 or 3 depending if more than one book in the ebook (omnibus) and if "Parts" or "Sections" or "Volumes" in any of the books.

If there is a preamble Title and preamble title then they get <p class="whatever", not an <h

Often I'd search </h2>
<p class="reg-body"

and replace </h2>
<p class="no-indent"

Then copy the CSS for .regbody and rename it to .no-indent, then set text-indent: 0;

Then Calibre can easily make a new TOC if the TOC is stupid, and break file at each heading (some ereaders and formats need that to do a page break).

[patrik]

I tested to change one title from p to h1 (which is not in use anywhere else). Didn't make a difference.

The problem was removed when I removed all links in the titles, but I would really like to understand why this happens (unless it's just a bug in the kepub-renderer).

[JSWolf]

The chapter header is some pretty poor code. This is some much better code for the same thing. You can style h2 as you see fit. But as you see, the code for the chapter header is very clean and simple. Plus, if you want or need to generate a new ToC, this will let you do so very easily. Plus, I cannot stand links in the chapter header as I prefer to nuke the HTML ToC.

<h2>Chapter 4</h2>

h2 {
  text-align: center;
  text-indent: 0;
  font-weight: bold;
  margin-top: 0.8em;
  margin-bottom: 0.8em;
}

[patrik]

While I appriciate your input, the issue is that this is a store bought epub that doesn't work as a kepub on Kobo. I get that sideloading is not officially supported (AFAIK), but it's still very interesting to find out why. There is probably something bad in the code, or maybe there is a bug in the kepub-renderar that would be great if Kobo fixed.

[DNSB]

Can you supply the same partial scrambled ebook but after it was kepubified whether by calibre or kepubify?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Can you supply the same partial scrambled ebook but after it was kepubified whether by calibre or kepubify?

And also supply a scrambled copy of the original so we can maybe see where the problem code is.

[patrik]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

And also supply a scrambled copy of the original so we can maybe see where the problem code is.

The attached file is the original.

[patrik]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Can you supply the same partial scrambled ebook but after it was kepubified whether by calibre or kepubify?

Here is the kepub (by Calibre).