Colspan and rowspan not working on the HTML Writer

[lnicorena]

This is:

• a bug report

Expected Behavior

To properly generate the colspan and rowspan properties, when loading a docx document containing tables (with merged cells) and convert it to html

Current Behavior

The colspan and rowspan properties (loaded from tables in a docx ) are being ignored by the HTML Writer. I believe that by the other Writers too.

Failure Information

When a table like this is loaded,

This is the html output:

<table>
<tbody><tr>
<td>
<p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">A</p>
</td>
<td>
<p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">B</p>
</td>
<td>
<p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">C</p>
<p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">R</p>
</td>
<td>
<p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">D</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Q</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Z</p>
</td>
<td>
<p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">E</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>

How to Reproduce

$template ='path/to/document.docx';
$phpWord = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::load($template);
$htmlWriter = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Writer\HTML($phpWord);
$htmlString = $htmlWriter->getContent();
print $htmlString;

Context

• PHP version: 7.2.0
• PHPWord version: 0.13.0

[troosan]

I'm guessing the problem occurs when loading the document, not writing it.

[mattbolt]

While investigating a similar issue, I've noticed this is actually two separate issues. The first, as @troosan indicates, is during the loading process (see #1291). The second seems that the HTML Writer completely ignores the gridSpan / vMerge cell styles.

For this reason i submitted the previously mentioned issue separately, as the HTML Writer does need to be modified to use the cell styles once they are being processed properly by the Reader.