Displaying paragraphs in HTML

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I'm writing a web application which needs to bring the stored paragraphs into the front web. The text come from excel work sheet and contains control characters like indent. I want to show the text in the exactly manner as it was in excel. How can I do that then? Thanks in advance.

You'll have a hard time converting Office formatting into HTML/CSS, be prepared — Rubens Farias, Feb 02 '10 at 08:22

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 02 '10 at 08:21

Without seeing your text to begin with, my initial suggestion would be to wrap it in pre-formatted tags. Note that this won't work for formatting like italics, underlines, etc. Merely white-space:

<pre>
Anything within these tags will

maintain  its    original formatting. Spaces, new lines, and all.
</pre>

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 02 '10 at 08:30

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It would be easier for you to save your excel file as web page into new file and use the html of this new file in your application.

answered Feb 02 '10 at 08:30

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Yes, the former solution we use is export the sheet into a html page. – Roy Feb 02 '10 at 08:44

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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You might want to check out RTF-to-HTML conversion.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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answered Feb 02 '10 at 08:43

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Displaying paragraphs in HTML

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