text-decoration style property for underline is not applied

[NagNagash]

Hello,

It seems that html4docx uses the HTML <u> tag to determine that text is underlined. According to this, this tag was deprecated in HTML 4 (and restored in HTML 5 with a new meaning). The "text-decoration" style property set to underline should be used instead.

HTML code example :
This <span style="text-decoration: underline;">word</span> should be underlined.

Generated docx file doesn't underline in this case.

[dfop02]

Hello @NagNagash , thanks for your support!
Yea, I agree that we could update the tag to match new stardart, I'll handle it soon and keep you updated here.
About supporting text-decoration style, the PR #44 will cover it when merged.

[dfop02]

Hello @NagNagash , the text-decoration among other CSS common styles was added on the latest release 1.1.1, feel free to take a look. About the <u> I'll update it on the next release 1.1.2.

[dfop02]

Hey @NagNagash, I looked deeper into the situation and it turns out this is more of a recommendation than a strict rule. All browsers I tested still render as a normal underline. What Mozilla suggests (see their documentation) is to use a wavy underline to avoid confusion with hyperlinks.

You can achieve the same effect by applying a class or inline style to override the tag. At the moment, the library can't load <style> or <link> tags (this is already on the To-Do list), but you can still accomplish this using inline styles. For example:

<p>
    You could use this element to highlight <u>speling</u> mistakes, so the writer
    can <span style="text-decoration: red wavy underline;">correct</span> them.
</p>

[NagNagash]

Ok, that's clear. Thanks for correcting the underline style property.