MsoNormal – What the Heck is Microsoft Doing with HTML?

Jason Bean — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:06:21 +0000


<!--
 /* Font Definitions */
 @font-face
    {font-family:"Cambria Math";
    panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
    mso-font-charset:0;
    mso-generic-font-family:roman;
    mso-font-pitch:variable;
    mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1107304683 0 0 159 0;}
@font-face
    {font-family:Calibri;
    panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;
    mso-font-charset:0;
    mso-generic-font-family:swiss;
    mso-font-pitch:variable;
    mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750139 0 0 159 0;}
 /* Style Definitions */
 p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
    {mso-style-unhide:no;
    mso-style-qformat:yes;
    mso-style-parent:"";
    margin-top:0in;
    margin-right:0in;
    margin-bottom:10.0pt;
    margin-left:0in;
    line-height:115%;
    mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
    font-size:11.0pt;
    font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
    mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;
    mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
    {mso-style-priority:99;
    color:blue;
    text-decoration:underline;
    text-underline:single;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
    {mso-style-noshow:yes;
    mso-style-priority:99;
    color:purple;
    mso-themecolor:followedhyperlink;
    text-decoration:underline;
    text-underline:single;}
.MsoChpDefault
    {mso-style-type:export-only;
    mso-default-props:yes;
    font-size:10.0pt;
    mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
    mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
    mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
    mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;
    mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;}
@page Section1
    {size:8.5in 11.0in;
    margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;
    mso-header-margin:.5in;
    mso-footer-margin:.5in;
    mso-paper-source:0;}
div.Section1
    {page:Section1;}
-->


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If you’ve done any website design at all, or even supported updating content for some of your clients, you’re probably familiar with how Microsoft Word can really mess with your source code if you just copy and paste from a Word Document into your HTML page.

I was helping my brother try and fix some HTML issues he was experiencing with some ExactTarget template messages earlier this afternoon.

As I jumped into the HTML source to see what was going on I saw the chunk of code I inserted above.

Can you believe all of that? There was absolutely nothing special in the code that was being done aside from standard text formatting on size and bold.

What in the world?

That’s a pretty good illustration of why tools like Dreamweaver have an option to “Clean Up Word HTML”

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