#Microsoft word add in html cleaner code#

In this case there is a culture clash between the underlying CSS of the webpage and Word's CSS, and some effort is required to make the best of a bad job. Equally, if you insert the HTML as a snippet into a web-page, retaining Word CSS, the results are pretty faithful. When Word re-opens an HTML file it has saved, it does some clever reverse-engineering on the document, so that renders in Word looking pretty much like it started. As a result, the HTML version of a Word document is not 'nice' HTML, but an attempt to retain the features of the Word document accurately.

it supports concepts such as tab-stops and multi-level numbering that HTML doesn't support, or is only just starting to. Word is about creating paper-optimised layouts.

If it was easy to use HTML features in a purist way they would have done so. The guys who wrote Winword and its HTML generation are smart guys.

#Microsoft word add in html cleaner code#

How can I make it generate lists that actually use and rather than, or at least modify something in my code to somehow work with the way weird way it does create lists? Ideally, Word would generate HTML using standard tags so that I could style it just like any other list, but this doesn't seem to be the case. I hate to see all my work go to waste, but this content is impossible to work with-I'd have to style on a document-to-document basis, rather than with a universal stylesheet. It used mountains of nested s with classes out the wazoo. After scrolling miles down the page, trying to repress a shudder, I saw a problem. Then, I got someone to create an ordered list in Word for Windows, export it as html, and send it to me to check compatibility. I created the outline using a simple numbered list in NeoOffice on my Mac, exported it as HTML, and wrote quite a bit of CSS to style it. I'd rather not hand-write it, so I decided to make something that would be useful for my classmates as well. Unfortunately, I have a professor who is requiring us to generate an outline to very exacting standards. Word is notorious for its bloated, convoluted, non-standards-compliant, non-semantic HTML.