From 3d47cf76fb73020da60c6abc16507415afe2c0aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:11:22 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Conversion: Fix malformed values in the bgcolor attribute
 causing conversion to abort

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/flatcss.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/flatcss.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/flatcss.py
index 28ab4a362c..12fbd3b7f1 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/flatcss.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/flatcss.py
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ class CSSFlattener(object):
         if 'bgcolor' in node.attrib:
             try:
                 cssdict['background-color'] = Property('background-color', node.attrib['bgcolor']).value
-            except ValueError:
+            except (ValueError, SyntaxErr):
                 pass
             del node.attrib['bgcolor']
         if cssdict.get('font-weight', '').lower() == 'medium':