html code: bloated and errors

[rosswoods]

Hi,

Here’s something that needs attention in LireOffice.
I have just tried using the “save to HTML” feature in Libreoffice.
The file was only 62 kb in Libre office but it became 359 kb as html. It was html 4.0 transitional not html5 and had lots of redundancies and little stuff-ups in the code. What first alerted me to a problem was overlapping lines of text.
As a comparison, my old MSWord 97 made the same file 18 kb. Some coding is not ideal, but at least there are no glitches.
Hope you can fix it.

Ross

[mikekaganski]

This is an enhancement/bug report, and is offtopic on the site where those “you” you address your message to are fellow users helping other users.

[LibertyBelle]

Feature requests and bug reports https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/ (need to sign up for an account).

1. Create a Bugzilla account.
2. Select FILE A BUG.
3. Select LIBREOFFICE.
4. Fill in the details of what you’d like to see.
5. Under Severity choose “Enhancement”.

[ve3oat]

@rosswoods This is a common situation for conversions from “text with formatting” to HTML code. It is because of the need for the conversion process to account for all or many possibilities in the formatting. The last time I used WordPerfect to convert anything to HTML, the resulting code was simply horrible – full of unnecessary statements and redundant code. I understand that many WYSIWYG coding tools produce similar results. Bottom line – If you want efficient HTML, code it yourself.