Page number in HTML

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December 1, 2023
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Is there a way to preserve page number(or convert page number to body text at the bottom) after exporting file to HTML.?

This is required as validation of HTML file , failes in some validators because of missing Page numbers.

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Kasyan Servetsky

Legend

Check out my Reflect page number of printed book to eBook script.

Peter Kahrel

Community Expert

One of the purposes of those folio markers in Epubs and HTML is that it's possible in the Epub (or HTML) to determine the print-page equivalent of a given range of text in the Epub. And some organisations require them.

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

Okay. I haven't run into that. It sounds — to my fussy ear — like something of a committee hack to make print and e-book "match up" in ways they really shouldn't have to. I've done a few dual-format projects for things under demanding FAA requirements, and there are simply different rules for print and e-doc, not requiring that each be just like the other.

Peter Kahrel

Community Expert

I share your sentiment, James, but if that's what a customer wants, that's what they'll get.

Peter Kahrel

Community Expert

It's required in some HTML and/or Epub workflows to link/bookmark print folios.

You'll need a script to insert the page number at the foot of every page. That page number should be in a character style to enable further processing.

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

This is probably the technically correct answer; if you need an HTML version of a document with page numbers, you have to manually insert the page separator with any header/footer/[static] page number desired. It's a hack, really, used only, as Peter notes, to maintain page-content links.

But HTML — and reflowable EPUB — are inherently "one page" documents. Any pagination is a virtual effect of the browser or reader. These separators will have no effect on 'page' display, at all.

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Chandrakanthi26574696ugutAuthor

Known Participant

Hi Thanks for understanding. We do understand HTML and its one page flow. However when we need to validate epub for HTML, there are validators which reject these HTML files because of missing Page numbers. Hence plan is to add page number differently and after HTML generation convert those tags to anchor tags.

As i am a beginner, can i get a script to add pagenumbers under different tag.