html-to-docx

html-to-docx is a js library for converting HTML documents to DOCX format supported by Microsoft Word 2007+, LibreOffice Writer, Google Docs, WPS Writer etc.

It was inspired by html-docx-js project but mitigates the problem of documents generated being non-compatiable with word processors like Google Docs and libreOffice Writer that doesn't support altchunks feature.

html-to-docx earlier used to use libtidy to clean up the html before parsing, but had to remove it since it was causing so many dependency issues due to node-gyp.

Disclaimer

Even though there is an instance of html-to-docx running in production, please ensure that it covers all the cases that you might be encountering usually, since this is not a complete solution.

Currently it doesn't work with browser directly, but it was tested against React.

Installation

Use the npm to install foobar.

npm install html-to-docx

Usage

await HTMLtoDOCX(htmlString, headerHTMLString, documentOptions, footerHTMLString)

full fledged examples can be found under example/

Parameters

• htmlString <String> clean html string equivalent of document content.
• headerHTMLString <String> clean html string equivalent of header. Defaults to `

if header flag istrue. -documentOptions<?[Object]> -orientation<"portrait"|"landscape"> defines the general orientation of the document. Defaults to portrait. -pageSize<?[Object]> Defaults to U.S. letter portrait orientation. -width<[Number]> width of the page for all pages in this section in [TWIP]. Defaults to 12240. Maximum 31680. Supports equivalent measurement in [pixel], [cm] or [inch]. -height<[Number]> height of the page for all pages in this section in [TWIP]. Defaults to 15840. Maximum 31680. Supports equivalent measurement in [pixel], [cm] or [inch]. -margins<?[Object]> -top<[Number]> distance between the top of the text margins for the main document and the top of the page for all pages in this section in [TWIP]. Defaults to 1440. Supports equivalent measurement in [pixel], [cm] or [inch]. -right<[Number]> distance between the right edge of the page and the right edge of the text extents for this document in [TWIP]. Defaults to 1800. Supports equivalent measurement in [pixel], [cm] or [inch]. -bottom<[Number]> distance between the bottom of text margins for the document and the bottom of the page in [TWIP]. Defaults to 1440. Supports equivalent measurement in [pixel], [cm] or [inch]. -left<[Number]> distance between the left edge of the page and the left edge of the text extents for this document in [TWIP]. Defaults to 1800. Supports equivalent measurement in [pixel], [cm] or [inch]. -header<[Number]> distance from the top edge of the page to the top edge of the header in [TWIP]. Defaults to 720. Supports equivalent measurement in [pixel], [cm] or [inch]. -footer<[Number]> distance from the bottom edge of the page to the bottom edge of the footer in [TWIP]. Defaults to 720. Supports equivalent measurement in [pixel], [cm] or [inch]. -gutter<[Number]> amount of extra space added to the specified margin, above any existing margin values. This setting is typically used when a document is being created for binding in [TWIP]. Defaults to 0. Supports equivalent measurement in [pixel], [cm] or [inch]. -title<?[String]> title of the document. -subject<?[String]> subject of the document. -creator<?[String]> creator of the document. Defaults tohtml-to-docx-keywords<?[Array]<[String]>> keywords associated with the document. Defaults to ['html-to-docx']. -description<?[String]> description of the document. -lastModifiedBy<?[String]> last modifier of the document. Defaults tohtml-to-docx. -revision<?[Number]> revision of the document. Defaults to1. -createdAt<?[Date]> time of creation of the document. Defaults to current time. -modifiedAt<?[Date]> time of last modification of the document. Defaults to current time. -headerType<"default"|"first"|"even"> type of header. Defaults todefault. -header<?[Boolean]> flag to enable header. Defaults tofalse. -footerType<"default"|"first"|"even"> type of footer. Defaults todefault. -footer<?[Boolean]> flag to enable footer. Defaults tofalse. -font<?[String]> font name to be used. Defaults toTimes New Roman. -fontSize<?[Number]> size of font in HIP(Half of point). Defaults to22. Supports equivalent measure in [pt]. -complexScriptFontSize<?[Number]> size of complex script font in HIP(Half of point). Defaults to22. Supports equivalent measure in [pt]. -table<?[Object]> -row<?[Object]> -cantSplit<?[Boolean]> flag to allow table row to split across pages. Defaults tofalse. -pageNumber<?[Boolean]> flag to enable page number in footer. Defaults tofalse. Page number works only if footer flag is set astrue. -skipFirstHeaderFooter<?[Boolean]> flag to skip first page header and footer. Defaults tofalse. -lineNumber<?[Boolean]> flag to enable line numbering. Defaults tofalse. -lineNumberOptions<?[Object]> -start<[Number]> start of the numbering - 1. Defaults to0. -countBy<[Number]> skip numbering in how many lines in between + 1. Defaults to1. -restart<"continuous"|"newPage"|"newSection"> numbering restart strategy. Defaults tocontinuous. -numbering<?[Object]> -defaultOrderedListStyleType<?[String]> default ordered list style type. Defaults todecimal. -decodeUnicode<?[Boolean]> flag to enable unicode decoding of header, body and footer. Defaults tofalse. -lang<?[String]> language localization code for spell checker to work properly. Defaults toen-US. -footerHTMLString<[String]> clean html string equivalent of footer. Defaults to

if footer flag istrue`.

Returns

<Promise<Buffer|Blob>>

Notes

Currently page break can be implemented by having div with classname "page-break" or style "page-break-after" despite the values of the "page-break-after", and contents inside the div element will be ignored. `

`

CSS list-style-type for <ol> element are now supported. Just do something like this in the HTML:

  <ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;">
    <li>List item</li>
    ...
  </ol>

List of supported list-style-types: - upper-alpha, will result in A. List item - lower-alpha, will result in a. List item - upper-roman, will result in I. List item - lower-roman, will result in i. List item - lower-alpha-bracket-end, will result in a) List item - decimal-bracket-end, will result in 1) List item - decimal-bracket, will result in (1) List item - decimal, (the default) will result in 1. List item

Also you could add attribute data-start="n" to start the numbering from the n-th.

<ol data-start="2"> will start the numbering from ( B. b. II. ii. 2. )

Font family doesnt work consistently for all word processor softwares

• Word Desktop work as intended
• LibreOffice ignores the fontTable.xml file, and finds a font by itself
• Word Online ignores the fontTable.xml file, and finds closest font in their font library

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to branch new branches off of develop for contribution.

Support

License

MIT

Contributors

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