Table of Contents and Links

For those of you wishing to create Kindle books based on html, consider adding a table of contents to your book.

This is not a complicated process with some basic knowledge of html.

Step 1:
Establish references within the document:

<a name="1">Chapter 1</a>

Use the anchor tag (<a> and </a>) using name with a # in front to create a reference point for Chapter 1 within a document.

Step 2:
Create a link to the newly created reference.

<a href="#1">Chapter 1</a>

Use the anchor tag, but this time you with href and a # before the name of the reference.

Step 3:
Now that you have links and references, you can create an internal table of contents:

<a name="#Contents">Contents</a>
<a href="#1">Chapter 1</a>
<a href="#1">Chapter 2</a>

Steps 1-3 will allow you to create a table of contents at the beginning of the document, but will not show up when selecting "menu".

To add this feature, there is just one more step required:

Step 4:
Copy the table of contents and add a "toc" reference.

<div name="toc"> and </div name="toc">

The final outcome should look like this:

<div name="toc">
<a name="#Contents">Contents</a>
<a href="#1">Chapter 1</a>
<a href="#1">Chapter 2</a>
</div name="toc">

<a name="#Contents">Contents</a>
<a href="#1">Chapter 1</a>
<a href="#1">Chapter 2</a>

For a finishing touch, you can add a page break with the following code:

<p style="page-break-before: always;"></p>