Details
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Bug
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Resolution: Unresolved
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P2: Important
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None
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6.7.0
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macOS
Description
In my app (get-notes.com), I work a lot with QTextDocument to transform the HTML of QML TextArea into Markdown and vice-versa. Whenever a user a creates a link, an underline is added (when non was specified and none is in the TextArea's HTML).
To easily reproduce this problem:
QString html = "<p>some <a href=\"google.com\">link</a></p>"; QTextDocument doc; doc.setHtml(html); qDebug() << "HTML: " << doc.toHtml();
This prints
HTML: "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta name=\"qrichtext\" content=\"1\" /><meta charset=\"utf-8\" /><style type=\"text/css\">\np, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }\nhr { height: 1px; border-width: 0; }\nli.unchecked::marker { content: \"\\2610\"; }\nli.checked::marker { content: \"\\2612\"; }\n</style></head><body style=\" font-family:'.AppleSystemUIFont'; font-size:13pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;\">\n<p style=\" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;\">some <a href=\"google.com\"><span style=\" text-decoration: underline; color:#094fd1;\">link</span></a></p></body></html>"
This HTML has the unspecified `text-decoration: underline;` format. The problem is not just in `toHtml()`'s output, the problem is in the underline `QTextCharFormat`, which returns true for
format.hasProperty(QTextFormat::FontUnderline)
format.fontUnderline()
So I can't use a custom parser like [QBasicHtmlExporter](https://github.com/Open-App-Library/QBasicHtmlExporter), since it will falsely detect an underline when the given QString HTML doesn't have any.
It seems like `doc.toMarkdown()` does return the right Markdown without an underline:
some [link](google.com)
But since there are issues with toMarkdown (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-123133) I can't use it, and have to resort to QBasicHtmlExporter and a different HTML to Markdown library (https://github.com/tim-gromeyer/html2md).