feat: Add CSS parsing and CSS support in EPUBs (#411)
## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
- Adds basic CSS parsing to EPUBs and determine the CSS rules when
rendering to the screen so that text is styled correctly. Currently
supports bold, underline, italics, margin, padding, and text alignment
## Additional Context
- My main reason for wanting this is that the book I'm currently
reading, Carl's Doomsday Scenario (2nd in the Dungeon Crawler Carl
series), relies _a lot_ on styled text for telling parts of the story.
When text is bolded, it's supposed to be a message that's rendered
"on-screen" in the story. When characters are "chatting" with each
other, the text is bolded and their names are underlined. Plus, normal
emphasis is provided with italicizing words here and there. So, this
greatly improves my experience reading this book on the Xteink, and I
figured it was useful enough for others too.
- For transparency: I'm a software engineer, but I'm mostly frontend and
TypeScript/JavaScript. It's been _years_ since I did any C/C++, so I
would not be surprised if I'm doing something dumb along the way in this
code. Please don't hesitate to ask for changes if something looks off. I
heavily relied on Claude Code for help, and I had a lot of inspiration
from how [microreader](https://github.com/CidVonHighwind/microreader)
achieves their CSS parsing and styling. I did give this as good of a
code review as I could and went through everything, and _it works on my
machine_ 😄
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### AI Usage
Did you use AI tools to help write this code? **YES**, Claude Code
2026-02-05 05:28:10 -05:00
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#pragma once
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#include <cstdint>
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#include "Epub/css/CssStyle.h"
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/**
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* BlockStyle - Block-level styling properties
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*/
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struct BlockStyle {
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CssTextAlign alignment = CssTextAlign::Justify;
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// Spacing (in pixels)
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int16_t marginTop = 0;
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int16_t marginBottom = 0;
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int16_t marginLeft = 0;
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int16_t marginRight = 0;
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int16_t paddingTop = 0; // treated same as margin for rendering
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int16_t paddingBottom = 0; // treated same as margin for rendering
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int16_t paddingLeft = 0; // treated same as margin for rendering
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int16_t paddingRight = 0; // treated same as margin for rendering
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int16_t textIndent = 0;
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bool textIndentDefined = false; // true if text-indent was explicitly set in CSS
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bool textAlignDefined = false; // true if text-align was explicitly set in CSS
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// Combined horizontal insets (margin + padding)
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[[nodiscard]] int16_t leftInset() const { return marginLeft + paddingLeft; }
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[[nodiscard]] int16_t rightInset() const { return marginRight + paddingRight; }
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[[nodiscard]] int16_t totalHorizontalInset() const { return leftInset() + rightInset(); }
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// Combine with another block style. Useful for parent -> child styles, where the child style should be
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// applied on top of the parent's style to get the combined style.
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BlockStyle getCombinedBlockStyle(const BlockStyle& child) const {
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BlockStyle combinedBlockStyle;
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combinedBlockStyle.marginTop = static_cast<int16_t>(child.marginTop + marginTop);
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combinedBlockStyle.marginBottom = static_cast<int16_t>(child.marginBottom + marginBottom);
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combinedBlockStyle.marginLeft = static_cast<int16_t>(child.marginLeft + marginLeft);
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combinedBlockStyle.marginRight = static_cast<int16_t>(child.marginRight + marginRight);
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combinedBlockStyle.paddingTop = static_cast<int16_t>(child.paddingTop + paddingTop);
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combinedBlockStyle.paddingBottom = static_cast<int16_t>(child.paddingBottom + paddingBottom);
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combinedBlockStyle.paddingLeft = static_cast<int16_t>(child.paddingLeft + paddingLeft);
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combinedBlockStyle.paddingRight = static_cast<int16_t>(child.paddingRight + paddingRight);
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// Text indent: use child's if defined
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if (child.textIndentDefined) {
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combinedBlockStyle.textIndent = child.textIndent;
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combinedBlockStyle.textIndentDefined = true;
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} else {
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combinedBlockStyle.textIndent = textIndent;
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combinedBlockStyle.textIndentDefined = textIndentDefined;
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}
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// Text align: use child's if defined
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if (child.textAlignDefined) {
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combinedBlockStyle.alignment = child.alignment;
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combinedBlockStyle.textAlignDefined = true;
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} else {
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combinedBlockStyle.alignment = alignment;
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combinedBlockStyle.textAlignDefined = textAlignDefined;
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}
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return combinedBlockStyle;
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}
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// Create a BlockStyle from CSS style properties, resolving CssLength values to pixels
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// emSize is the current font line height, used for em/rem unit conversion
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// paragraphAlignment is the user's paragraphAlignment setting preference
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static BlockStyle fromCssStyle(const CssStyle& cssStyle, const float emSize, const CssTextAlign paragraphAlignment) {
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BlockStyle blockStyle;
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// Resolve all CssLength values to pixels using the current font's em size
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blockStyle.marginTop = cssStyle.marginTop.toPixelsInt16(emSize);
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blockStyle.marginBottom = cssStyle.marginBottom.toPixelsInt16(emSize);
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blockStyle.marginLeft = cssStyle.marginLeft.toPixelsInt16(emSize);
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blockStyle.marginRight = cssStyle.marginRight.toPixelsInt16(emSize);
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blockStyle.paddingTop = cssStyle.paddingTop.toPixelsInt16(emSize);
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blockStyle.paddingBottom = cssStyle.paddingBottom.toPixelsInt16(emSize);
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blockStyle.paddingLeft = cssStyle.paddingLeft.toPixelsInt16(emSize);
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blockStyle.paddingRight = cssStyle.paddingRight.toPixelsInt16(emSize);
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blockStyle.textIndent = cssStyle.textIndent.toPixelsInt16(emSize);
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blockStyle.textIndentDefined = cssStyle.hasTextIndent();
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blockStyle.textAlignDefined = cssStyle.hasTextAlign();
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// User setting overrides CSS, unless "Book's Style" alignment setting is selected
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if (paragraphAlignment == CssTextAlign::None) {
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blockStyle.alignment = blockStyle.textAlignDefined ? cssStyle.textAlign : CssTextAlign::Justify;
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feat: Add CSS parsing and CSS support in EPUBs (#411)
## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
- Adds basic CSS parsing to EPUBs and determine the CSS rules when
rendering to the screen so that text is styled correctly. Currently
supports bold, underline, italics, margin, padding, and text alignment
## Additional Context
- My main reason for wanting this is that the book I'm currently
reading, Carl's Doomsday Scenario (2nd in the Dungeon Crawler Carl
series), relies _a lot_ on styled text for telling parts of the story.
When text is bolded, it's supposed to be a message that's rendered
"on-screen" in the story. When characters are "chatting" with each
other, the text is bolded and their names are underlined. Plus, normal
emphasis is provided with italicizing words here and there. So, this
greatly improves my experience reading this book on the Xteink, and I
figured it was useful enough for others too.
- For transparency: I'm a software engineer, but I'm mostly frontend and
TypeScript/JavaScript. It's been _years_ since I did any C/C++, so I
would not be surprised if I'm doing something dumb along the way in this
code. Please don't hesitate to ask for changes if something looks off. I
heavily relied on Claude Code for help, and I had a lot of inspiration
from how [microreader](https://github.com/CidVonHighwind/microreader)
achieves their CSS parsing and styling. I did give this as good of a
code review as I could and went through everything, and _it works on my
machine_ 😄
### Before


### After


---
### AI Usage
Did you use AI tools to help write this code? **YES**, Claude Code
2026-02-05 05:28:10 -05:00
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} else {
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blockStyle.alignment = paragraphAlignment;
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}
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return blockStyle;
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}
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};
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