Re: [libreoffice-users] import from HTML

On 12/12/2011 09:48 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
> On 12/12/2011 08:24 AM, David S. Crampton wrote:
> > Jef,
> >
> > Take a look at the raw HTML. The formatting might be using style
> > sheets (.css) files. It is pretty easy for the linkages between the
> > body of html and the external style sheets to be broken.
> >
> > Just a suggestion,
> Generally, formating should be controlled by CSS so importing HTML will
> all the formating may be dicey. I have found that copy/paste of table
> information works very well with Calc.
>
> What kind of data are users importing? Is the html data a table or mixed
> tabular and non tabular data?
it is a table, and indeed, copy/paste works ok. only some markup is not 
copies (as it is in some other spreadsheet program), eg if a row has 
this attribute set, bgcolor='red', this will not be copied to calc.
it is not a big issue, it is a feature, and if it worked, ok nice.

Thanks for the reply !

jef

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