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I trying to convert this html

<p><font color = \"#808080\">SHILPI</p>

to docx using pandoc with this command 

pandoc -s -o "test.docx" -t html5 -t docx html_file

But its losing colors, I am getting only text, as far as I know I think html code is correct because when I am using wkhtmltopdf to convert same html to pdf it gives the proper color. What can be the issue ? Thanks in advance.

Shilpi Agrawal
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    You question is a duplicate of [pandoc convert html with style sheet to docx](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29483060/pandoc-convert-html-with-style-sheet-to-docx/29484938#comment53356815_29484938) but I cannot get the solution to work. Therefore I don't think it is fair to link to solution that doesn't work. – Black Frog Sep 24 '15 at 10:23

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That's not how Pandoc works, it doesn't understand CSS, only HTML/Markdown. It preserves the content, but not the layout etc, see semantic HTML.

You can, however, use templates to style your output consistently. With Word it's a bit more complicated but you can use the --reference-doc option for mostly the same effect.

mb21
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Try:

pandoc  -s -S test.htm -o test.docx

Reference: http://pandoc.org/demos.html

Frank Boucher
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This inspection highlights deprecated HTML tags and provides ability to replace them with CSS or with other tags for some of them. Maybe better use this: <p style="color: #808080">SHILPI</p>

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    No this is wrong html input its not even working in webpage. – Shilpi Agrawal Sep 24 '15 at 08:13
  • if i not mistake, this a good example for learn all current notations http://www.freecodecamp.com/challenges/bonfire-search-and-replace –  Sep 24 '15 at 09:16