table alignment lost on conversion

[Miguel]

I'm working on a Word file, then saving it as HTML filtered. I import it on Calibre (version 2.54, on Windows 10), and convert the file to AZW3. However, the centralized table now lacks the "align:center" property, defaulting to left alignment.

If I manually edit the converted book adding "align:center" to the table, it works correctly. I'm uploading a small HTML sample, so it's easier to reproduce the problem, since it contains a single centralized table and two paragraphs.

[Miguel (nyarlathotep)]

Attaching the AZW3 output.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

align=center is deprecated, even in HTML 4, and completely disallowed in HTML 5.
https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#h-15.1.2

You really should not be using MS word HTML output, it is awful. Convert
the docx file from word directly instead. ALternately, replace
align=center with style="text-align:center" in the HTML and you will be
fine.

 status invalid

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Actually since this is for a table, setting text-align wont work, you
will need to set margin-left: auto and margin-right:auto on the table.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Actually, I think I'll add some code to calibre to detect this
particular broken construct and add the margin declarations for child
tables automatically.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every Friday.

 status fixreleased

[Miguel (nyarlathotep)]

Thanks for the explanations, Kovid. Indeed, setting the margins to "Auto" solved the issue. I'm looking forward to the new version.

Anyway, I'll see if I can change my workflow and start using the docx as my source. I do a lot of modifications on the html, though, so I'll have to see if they're still feasible on the docx.