Copy-Paste table from Word = Errors

[User7]

Hello, when pasting a table and keeping format from a Word document, the coding has many errors. Am I doing something wrong or just table pasting is not the way to go (because the result looked great even in other epub viewers)

[rubeus]

A faster reply could be possible if more information was given. "There are many coding errors" isnt very helpful.

[DiapDealer]

Pasting formatted content from Word into Book View will work--as you've found out. But that doesn't mean the code that results will automatically be epub-spec valid. You've not mentioned what the errors were, by the way, so I'm assuming they're validation errors/warnings of some kind and not, in fact, well-formed errors.

I'm admittedly biased on the subject of Book View editing, so I would definitely say that table-pasting from Word into Book View is not the way to go. Others' mileage may vary, of course.

I would suggest saving the entire Word document as filtered html and importing that into a Sigil epub--or better yet, using Toxaris' Word add-in--rather than copy/pasting formatted data from Word to Sigil.

[User7]

Originally Posted by rubeus

A faster reply could be possible if more information was given. "There are many coding errors" isnt very helpful.

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Pasting formatted content from Word into Book View will work--as you've found out. But that doesn't mean the code that results will automatically be epub-spec valid. You've not mentioned what the errors were, by the way, so I'm assuming they're validation errors/warnings of some kind and not, in fact, well-formed errors.

I'm admittedly biased on the subject of Book View editing, so I would definitely say that table-pasting from Word into Book View is not the way to go. Others' mileage may vary, of course.

I would suggest saving the entire Word document as filtered html and importing that into a Sigil epub--or better yet, using Toxaris' Word add-in--rather than copy/pasting formatted data from Word to Sigil.

For every table paste these errors appear many times:
attribute 'align' is not declared for element 'p'
attribute 'width' is not declared for element 'td'

I'll try those 2 suggestions DiapDealer thank you

[User7]

The 1st method (importing filtered html code) had the same results with an additional error
attribute 'type' is not declared for element 'ui'

[rubeus]

epub is XHTML with a subset from CSS 2. If you paste code outside these specifications its completely normal that you get errors.

[KevinH]

Depending on what version of epubcheck you are using width is not longer a legal attribute on a table td tag. Instead the spec calls for using css either as inline styes or in an external css file.

Here is one approach to fixing this by example:

<table width="100%">
  <tr>
    <td width="80%">Foo</td>
    <td width="20%">Bar</td>
  </tr>
</table>

The width attribute is no longer present in HTML5. Use CSS instead:

<table style="width:100%;">
  <tr>
    <td style="width:80%;">Foo</td>
    <td style="width:20%;">Bar</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Similar things are true for align attributes on a p-tag.

The correct way to handle this for html5 is:

<p style="text-align:right">

This way of handling it is correct for all html4 and 5.

[User7]

Originally Posted by KevinH

...

Thanx Kevin! That really helped since Im new to this.
The problem was when pasting a table, the width attribute appeared twice in the code (example):

<td width="130" valign="top" style="width:97.55pt;border:solid white 1.0pt;...etc

and deleting width="130" worked like a charm!
While with align I got (example):

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;...etc

and deleting align="left" didn't affect the table appearance as well.