Documotor supports importing HTML-formatted text into documents and presentations. As with most implementations, Documotor only supports a subset of HTML tags. Here is a complete list of supported tags, as well as the properties that can be used to override HTML styling.

Supported HTML tags

• <b>
• <br/>
• <font face="" size="" color="">
  • face
    • Optional attribute, name of the font family.
  • size
    • Optional attribute, size of the font, integer from one to seven, three being the normal size.
  • color
    • Optional attribute, the color of the text. Can be a name ('Red'), a hex value ('#FF0000'), or an RGB-formatted string ('rgb(255,0,0)').
• Headings
  • <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, <h6>
• <i>
• <li>
• <ol start="">
  • start
    • Optional attribute, the value of the first list item in the list
• <p>
• <sub>
• <sup>
• <u>

User style

It is possible to overwrite how tags change the style of a paragraph and introduce new inline tags. Inline tags are used within a paragraph, such as <b>. Here are a few examples followed by a list of all supported style properties.

Examples

The following user style makes the bold tag also add an underscore.

{ "b":  
  { "underscore": true }  
}

The type <Integer, String> is a dictionary with an integer key and string value. It is used when mapping the level of a list to a specific style or string/symbol. The level of a list starts at 0, with no indent. The following user style sets the style of a numbered list to use Arabic numbers at no indent, Roman numbers at one indent, and alphabetic letters at two indents.

{ "ol":
  { "bulletStyle":
    {
      "0": "1.",
      "1": "i.",
      "2": "a."
    }
  }
}

Style properties

• Alignment
  • L (left), Ctr (center) or R (right).
• BackgroundColor, string
  • The color behind the text, same format as TextColor.
• BaseLine, number
  • Moves text down if negative, and up if positive. Default for Subscript and Superscript is -25000 and 30000 respectively.
• Bold, boolean
  • Makes text bold if true
• BulletChar, <integer, string>
  • A mapping of numbered list level, and what string to use as the bullet.
  • <integer, string> represents a dictionary with integer keys and string values.
• BulletStyle, <integer, string>
  • A mapping of numbered list level and what style to use for bullets. The following types of bullets are supported:
    • l.
    • l)
    • i.
    • i)
    • I.
    • I)
    • a.
    • a)
    • A.
    • A)
• DefaultFontSize, decimal number
  • The size of the text at a factor of one. Usually only set in the body, and then factor is used in the remaining tags, but it is not a requirement.
• Font, text
  • Name of the font to use. Write it as displayed in Word/PowerPoint.
• FontSizeFactor, decimal number
  • The size of the text in a tag is by default some % of the default font size. A factor of 1 means that size is unchanged.
• Indent, number
  • Adds a margin to the left side of the first line of a paragraph.
• IsNumbered, boolean
  • Marks paragraph as a numbered list item.
• Italic, boolean
  • If true, makes text italic.
• LineSpace, decimal number
  • Multiplier of line space in a paragraph. For example, 2 corresponds to 200% and 1.5 to 150%.
• MarginLeft, number
  • Adds a margin to the left side of the entire paragraph.
• NumberStart, number
  • The number of the first list item in a numbered list.
• ShowBullet, boolean
  • Mark the paragraph as a bullet list item.
• SpaceAfter, decimal number
  • Points of empty space to add after a paragraph.
• SpaceBefore, decimal number
  • Points of empty space to add before a paragraph.
• TextColor, text
  • The color of the text. Can be a name ('Red'), a hex value ('#FF0000'), or an RGB-formatted string ('rgb(255,0,0)').
• Underscore, boolean
  • Adds a single line of underscore to the text if true.