<em> <strong> generates a line break on ::addHtml()

[tom-lp-at]

This is:

• a bug report
• a feature request
• not a usage question (ask them on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/phpword)

Expected Behavior

Dies ist ein Test

DIES IST EIN TEST
• wrewrewr
• cxvycxvy
ertfetertert

The HTML-Table is read from a MySQL-Field and stored from a ckeditor

Current Behavior

Dies ist ein Test

DIES
IST

EIN
TEST
• wrewrewr
• cxvycxvy
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What is the current behavior?
After the Bold and Italic it puts a line-break into

Failure Information

Please help provide information about the failure.
The resulting XML from the docx:

<w:t xml:space="preserve">Dies ist ein Test</w:t></w:r></w:p><w:p/><w:p><w:pPr/><w:r><w:rPr/><w:t xml:space="preserve">DIES </w:t></w:r></w:p><w:p><w:pPr/><w:r><w:rPr><w:b/><w:bCs/></w:rPr><w:t xml:space="preserve">IST</w:t></w:r></w:p><w:p><w:pPr/><w:r><w:rPr/><w:t xml:space="preserve"> </w:t></w:r></w:p><w:p><w:pPr/><w:r><w:rPr><w:i/><w:iCs/></w:rPr><w:t xml:space="preserve">EIN</w:t></w:r></w:p><w:p><w:pPr/><w:r><w:rPr/><w:t xml:space="preserve"> TEST</w:t></w:r></w:p><w:p><w:pPr><w:pPr/><w:numPr><w:ilvl w:val="0"/><w:numId w:val="9"/></w:numPr></w:pPr><w:r><w:rPr/><w:t xml:space="preserve">wrewrewr</w:t></w:r></w:p><w:p><w:pPr><w:pPr/><w:numPr><w:ilvl w:val="0"/><w:numId w:val="9"/></w:numPr></w:pPr><w:r><w:rPr/><w:t xml:space="preserve">cxvycxvy</w:t></w:r></w:p><w:p><w:pPr/><w:r><w:rPr/><w:t xml:space="preserve">ertfetertert</w:t></w:r></w:p>

How to Reproduce

The source of the Table:

Dies ist ein Test<br />
DIES <strong>IST</strong> <em>EIN</em> TEST
<ul>
<li>wrewrewr</li>
<li>cxvycxvy</li>
</ul>
ertfetertert

<?php
               $phpWord = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord();
 		\PhpOffice\PhpWord\Settings::setOutputEscapingEnabled(true);
 		
 		$phpWord->getSettings()->setUpdateFields(true);
 		
		$phpWord->setDefaultFontName('CorporateS');
 		$phpWord->addParagraphStyle('pJustify', array('align' => 'center', 'spaceBefore' => 0, 'spaceAfter' => 0, 'spacing' => 0));
 		$phpWord->addFontStyle('footerStyle', array('size'=>8));
 		
 		// New portrait section
		$section = $phpWord->addSection();
                $section->addTitle('Zweckbestimmung des Verzeichnisses', 1);
 		\PhpOffice\PhpWord\Shared\Html::addHtml($section, $anwendung['zweck'],false,false);
                $phpWord->save($path_pdf1."/".$file_docx,"Word2007");

Context

• Fedora 27 Workstation - latest updates
• PHP version: 7.1.18
• PHPWord version: dev-master

I use phpword installed over composer into a codeigniter-project. I try 0.14 / 0.15.x-dev / dev-master / dev-develop. I double checked with the pulled changes from ticket #846 and they are all in place. I try to put it between a <p> and <div>. The only solution for now is to remove the tags after reading from the database.

[tom-lp-at]

i try to put it between a <p> + </p> and <div> + </div> - no success

[troosan]

only way I managed to have it working is

<p>Dies ist ein Test<br/>DIES <strong>IST</strong> <em>EIN</em> TEST</p>
<ul>
    <li>wrewrewr</li>
    <li>cxvycxvy</li>
</ul>

[jr-ewing]

is there an other solution or an Bugfix for this ?
I did not want to change every Text and put it in

.

[schreyers]

I was having this issue as well, and I have found this solution to work currently.

function clean_comment_export($subject) { $subject = preg_replace('#\R+#', "\n\n", strip_tags(preg_replace("/[\r\n]+/", "\n", $subject), '<b><i><strike>')); $subject = nl2br('<p>'. $subject . '</p>'); return $subject; }

This works well enough for my use, so hope it helps here :)

[dorigoor]

I was having this issue as well, and I have found this solution to work currently.
`function clean_comment_export($subject) {
$subject = preg_replace('#\R+#', "\n\n", strip_tags(preg_replace("/[\r\n]+/", "\n", $subject), ''));

$subject = nl2br('<p>' . $subject . '</p>');
return $subject;

}`
This works well enough for my use, so hope it helps here :)

that removed the tags that cause the line breaks.
but I want to keep the visual effect of the tags.
for example, I want the text that is in the "strong" tag to appear bold and of course without the line break.

so as of April 2021 - is there a solution for this?

by the way, the unwanted line breaks happens on every HTML tag (using the addHtml() method).
example:
<p>pretext <strong>text</strong> posttext</p>
or:
<p>pretext <inc>text</inc> posttext</p>
or:
<p>pretext <p style="display: inline">text</p> posttext</p>
or:
<p>pretext <foo>text</foo> posttext</p>
the result of all of the above is a line break after "pretext" and after "text", for example:
pretext
text
posttext

[schreyers]

@dorigoor the solution I use only targets double
tags (i think) and only leaves in the <b><i><strike>

I guess you could add to the checks and look for patterns that emerge.

Also noticed that the code block wasn't displaying properly, so fixed that here

[vikashrajgupta]

I'm facing a similar problem here, I have a string that contains the <b> tag, and whenever I'm using the below method to show content as HTML it's breaking the line.
I'm using this currently \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Shared\Html::addHtml($cell, $string,false,false);
Can you please help me out here?

[schreyers]

@vikashrajgupta Its been so long since I solved this, but I run my text through this function, and its seems to do the trick. The HTML that gets input is horrific, so I have to do a lot of steps to clean it.

`function clean_comment_export($subject, $front_addition_text = '') {

// Clean escaped quotes
$subject = str_replace('\"', '"', $subject);

// Clean style tags
$subject = preg_replace('/(<[^>]+) style=".*?"/i', '$1', $subject);

// Remove multiple br tags
$subject = preg_replace('#(<br */?>\s*)+#i', '<br />', $subject);

// Try and catch all the weird spaces...
$subject = str_replace(array("<br />", "<br/>"), "</p><p>", '<p>'.$subject.'</p>');

// Sort the spacing
$subject = preg_replace('#\R+#', "\r\n", preg_replace("/[\r\n]+/", "\r\n", $subject));

// Remove Tabs 
$subject = trim(preg_replace('/\t+/', '', $subject));

// Remove multiple backslashes
$subject = preg_replace('~\\+~', '', $subject);

// Remove multiple single quote
$subject = preg_replace("~'+~", "'", $subject);

// Remove \' 
$subject = str_replace("\'", "'", $subject);

// Turn closing and opening p tags into breaks
$subject = str_replace("</p><p>", "###", $subject);

// Remove the double ######
$subject = str_replace("######", "", $subject);

// ...and ### ### as these happen apparently.
$subject = str_replace("### ###", "###", $subject);

// Remove nbsp
$subject = str_replace("&nbsp;", ' ', $subject);

// Remove double spaces 
$subject = preg_replace('!\s+!', ' ', $subject);

// Strip all tags, except <b><i><strike>
$subject = strip_tags($subject, '<b><i><strike>');

// Remove any ### at the start
$subject = rtrim(ltrim($subject, "#"), "#");

// Add in the <p> tags in the text.
$subject = str_replace("###", "</p><br/><p>", $subject);

// Sort the breaks before and after formatting tags
$subject = '<p>' .nl2br($front_addition_text . $subject). '</p>';

return $subject;

}`

[elishaukpong]

@schreyers your fix just saved me after 3 hours of figuring out what exactly is wrong. i replaced <br> with <br/> and I got the new line I needed.

Thank you

[Hanzerik]

Had the same problem, @schreyers 's function indeed does the trick.