How to maintain leading dots between title and author in EPUB?

Question

I have created a book and at the back is a bibliography which is just a list of titles and authors. In the print version, the title and the author are separated by a leading row of dots which looks very smart with the titles up against the left margin and the authors up against the right margin.. However, when I try to convert it to an e-book and look at it with Kindle Previewer, the dots have disappeared. Can anyone suggest how I can achieve leading dots with a list in an ePub? I have already asked the question to an AI source and received many many CSS solutions, none of which has resulted in the dots showing in the Kindle previewer.

jos088brus · Accepted Answer

Hello,Your dots disappear in the eBook version; instead of relying on CSS, the most reliable approach is to use a simple HTML structure such as a table with the title left-aligned and the author right-aligned, or to manually include the dot leaders directly in the HTML (for example, typing the dots between the title and author), since these methods are consistently rendered across Kindle devices while CSS-based solutions like Ulta Card after, flexbox, or similar techniques are frequently ignored.

Mike Witherell · Answer

Not everything that can be accomplished in typesetting in a page layout software will translate to the deliberately simpler epub. The name of the game is to simplify.

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