"Basic Text Frame" object style outputting to ePub with stroke around frame

[JKA@4153]

I have the "Basic Text Frame" object style applied to my text frames in an ID document. When I export to ePub the frames are showing with a black stroke around them even though there is no stroke applied in the object style.

I just wondered if anyone else is experiencing this or whether it is a known bug? I'm using the latest version of ID on a mac.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[Derek Cross]

Reflowable or FXL ePub?

[JKA@4153]

Hi, it's reflowable. When I looked in the settings for the object style I saw that under the "Export Tagging" option, the tag was set to "section" (see screenshot below). After exporting to ePub and viewing the css I can see that Indesign is creating the following CSS styles:

figure.Above-line-centered {
	border-style:solid;
}
section.Basic-Text-Frame {
	border-style: solid;
}
section.figcaption {
	border-style:solid;
}

It's adding a border around all sections, figures and figure captions. 

This must be a bug because when I remove the tag from the object style options dialogue, the output does not contain the border.

As this must be a bug, is there a workaround or is a fix expected some time soon?

Would be grateful for any advice.

[Guest]

This is still a bug in InDesign 17.1 and happens in both refowable and fixed layout ePub.

You can resolve with your own CSS added at export time to include:

section, figure {
  border-style: none !important;
}

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

CSS is the absolute way to fix this, as noted.

But a better fix is to never use the default text/graphic frames for any publication, whether it's print or EPUB. There are too many assumptions built into how they're applied and processed. Reset both to default state and then create at least one new style for application to your document's frames. Tweak each one as needed.

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