Toc for epub

Hi,
My TOC has 20 chapters so spills onto a few pages in the epub. I have a horizontal rule after the first ten, as the book has two parts. Because of the flow, it doesn't look so appealing to the eye so wondering if I should create two TOC pages, each with 10 chapters to even it out so it looks neater. I was thinking of having small text in ital @ the bottom of the first TOC page...something like 'table of contents continued...' . Is that a good solution or do people not really bother?
Other than that, I set the styles so the TOC link text is 'black'. Why in iBook are those links in a dark blue-purple? - Anyway to control or override that?
thanks!

Hi,
To achieve a definite amount of space before the chapter heading, you can set First Line Indent in paragraph style definition to 0.25 inches and it gets mapped to text-indent property in the CSS.
Regards,
Pooja

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