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susan_cassidy · 06-13-2009, 03:41 PM

I don't think is valid html, so maybe that is why the program couldn't fix it. It would normally be or similar. Or, xxx.

If other HTML tags are fixable with the program, you could just manually edit the weird ones with find and replace.

There are regular expressions that you can put into programs that will fix some HTML, but it is usually going to miss a few, since HTML can be a little complex, especially if it came from something like the awful Word HTML.

06-13-2009, 03:41 PM	#4
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	I don't think <span italic> is valid html, so maybe that is why the program couldn't fix it. It would normally be <span style="font-style:italic"> or similar. Or, <span><i>xxx</i></span>. If other HTML tags are fixable with the program, you could just manually edit the weird ones with find and replace. There are regular expressions that you can put into programs that will fix some HTML, but it is usually going to miss a few, since HTML can be a little complex, especially if it came from something like the awful Word HTML.