Dreamweaver does a great job of cleaning up Word HTML & Inline CSS see
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1929011/what-is-the-best-way-to-get-clean-semantic-xhtml-from-ms-word-documents On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > At 19:48 +0100 on 01/14/2010, Bucky Junior wrote about Re: I'm new at this: > >> First of all, I've seen huge blocks of code unnecessarily filled with CSS >> style definitions where it was completely insane. Then, the code is >> generally non-compliant with W3C specifications. Lastly, By knowing some >> html coding and cascading style sheets, you can probably do the same page >> with 1/20th the volume of code. > > The problem is two fold. First is that no version of Office since Office 97 > (Windows)/98(Macintosh) has output Pure HTML (ie: No CSS). Every Version on > both Windows and Macintosh has put out HTML+CSS (not a problem if the CSS is > good - See Point 2 below). The junk CSS that you see is to allow Office the > ability to read the HTML as if it were a DOC version of the file (it > contains CSS to allow the file to be round-tripped so that when read you end > up with the same content/formatting as you would have had if you had saved > as .doc/.docx in lieu of .html. There is a setting so that you can save the > HTML WITHOUT the round-trip crud. You still however run into the second > problem - The CSS is verbose and badly formed. For example, instead of > having a definition for the P tag to define the default paragraph this > information is stored as a CLASS definition and EVERY P tag has the class= > reference. > -- > > Robert A. Rosenberg > RAR Programming Systems Ltd. > Home: 845-357-0931 > Cell: 646-479-1984 > Fax: 646-349-4025 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en > If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, > please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. >
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