Reply To: Confusion about ID selectors generated by InDesign

Hey George,

Do you have a linked TOC or did you use InDesign to generate a TOC? If so, those ID selectors are most likely the locations to where your TOC is linking to. Check your TOC links and they will probably be at the end of the link. Also, I believe the “Emit CSS” option applies more to classes than ID’s, as ID’s, while you can apply CSS to them, are more like physical addresses in your HTML for you to be able to link to.

As far as the “include in HTML” feature. This is for things like italics where you just need an <i> tag, previously InDesign would force you to included a class or it would just insert your character style name as the class which was really annoying. this feature was supposed to eliminate the need for having to include classes for tags if they werent needed (e.g. i, b, em, strong, small, sup, sub, etc.). that being said, you will notice with italics that if you uncheck “Include in HTML” and export, you will not have any italic tags at all for some reason.

Anyway I hope some of it made sense and possibly answered some of your questions.

Aaron