node-html-to-text

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Hi,

I mean some site has their rule such as make a block , in this case, need a \n in text.

For example:

<div>
    <p styles="display:inline">
        inline 1  (no \n)
    </p>
    <p styles="display:inline">
        inline 2 (no \n)
    </p>
    <p >
        <a styles="display:block"> block 1(need add \n after) </a>
        block 2(need add \n after)   
    </p>
</div>

But styles always not write with element, usually in css, it would be nice to load several .css files to precisely convert html to text.

Version 8 is now live. It add a pretty good selectors support that allows to match on style attribute as well:

{
  selectors: [
    { selector: 'p[style*="display:inline"i]', format: 'inline' },
    { selector: 'a[style*="display:block"i]', format: 'block' }
    // might need a custom formatter in case a.href etc is needed
  ]
}

At this point it seems unlikely html-to-text will go as far as doing full cascade style sheets though. HTML CSS is not really useful for text rendering in the most part - plain text medium is way too different.