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Excel interpreting HTML and CR/LF
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My ASP app allows users to save certain dynamic data as excel spreadsheets and the method I chose to accomplish this was to simply create an table in HTML with my data and tell the browser to use the excel mime type. Works great - even little functions like SUM that you can you inside Excel directly. My problem is there is a notes column in this dataset which contains line breaks for between paragraphs. When Excel interprets <br, <p, etc it automatically creates a new row. I need excel to honor those tags as it would if you were in the desktop application and used [alt] + [enter] to create a new line inside a single cell Here's what I've tried so far - vbscript's chr(10) and chr(13 - <br, <p - wrapping my text inside <p text text </p tag - "# & 1 0 ;" and "# & 1 3 ;" w/o space How can I tell Excel to not break CR/LF chars into a new row, and just stick with the table structure I give it? Any leads are much appreciated. |
Excel interpreting HTML and CR/LF
Hi Steve,
You can use the style "mso-data-placement:same-cell" on the br elements to tell Excel to keep them in the same cell. Here's an example: <html <head <style type="text/css" <!-- br {mso-data-placement:same-cell} //-- </style </head <body <table <tr <tdThis is a test.<br<brThis is only a test.</td <tdtest 2</td </tr <tr <tdThis is test 3. <br<br<br Notice the 2 line break</td <tdtest 4</td </tr </table </body </html I figured this out by doing what I wanted in Excel, then looking at the source code in the Script Editor (Alt+Shift+F11). I noticed the style applied to the br elements, and that seemed to do the trick when I added it to a simple HTML document. The browser will ignore styles like that, as they are proprietary Office styles. -- Regards, Jake Marx MS MVP - Excel www.longhead.com [please keep replies in the newsgroup - email address unmonitored] Steve Flook wrote: Hope this is the right newsgroup - just yell at me if not :) My ASP app allows users to save certain dynamic data as excel spreadsheets and the method I chose to accomplish this was to simply create an table in HTML with my data and tell the browser to use the excel mime type. Works great - even little functions like SUM that you can you inside Excel directly. My problem is there is a notes column in this dataset which contains line breaks for between paragraphs. When Excel interprets <br, <p, etc it automatically creates a new row. I need excel to honor those tags as it would if you were in the desktop application and used [alt] + [enter] to create a new line inside a single cell. Here's what I've tried so far: - vbscript's chr(10) and chr(13) - <br, <p - wrapping my text inside <p text text </p tags - "# & 1 0 ;" and "# & 1 3 ;" w/o spaces How can I tell Excel to not break CR/LF chars into a new row, and just stick with the table structure I give it? Any leads are much appreciated. |
Excel interpreting HTML and CR/LF (thanks)
Jake thanks a million - works like a champ. It seems to not accept <p tags even when I add the same style like what you had for the <br. No worries - I'll just replace <p's with a couple of breaks instead for now unless you got another trick for that
Thanks again Steve |
Excel interpreting HTML and CR/LF (thanks)
Hi Steve,
You're welcome - glad to be able to assist. No, I don't know of a way offhand to format the <p tags so the text will stay in the same cell. -- Regards, Jake Marx MS MVP - Excel www.longhead.com [please keep replies in the newsgroup - email address unmonitored] Steve Flook wrote: Jake thanks a million - works like a champ. It seems to not accept <p tags even when I add the same style like what you had for the <br. No worries - I'll just replace <p's with a couple of breaks instead for now unless you got another trick for that. Thanks again, Steve |
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