From 6cc4432cb71ac34fbfd7edc0780b19c90ec227b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Marshall T. Vandegrift" <llasram@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:24:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #1681.  Handle HTML "style" attributes which begin with a
 ";".

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/stylizer.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/stylizer.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/stylizer.py
index 6549c8eccd..bf04133254 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/stylizer.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/stylizer.py
@@ -277,7 +277,10 @@ class Style(object):
     def _apply_style_attr(self):
         attrib = self._element.attrib
         if 'style' in attrib:
-            style = CSSStyleDeclaration(attrib['style'])
+            css = attrib['style'].strip()
+            if css.startswith(';'):
+                css = css[1:]
+            style = CSSStyleDeclaration(css)
             self._style.update(self._stylizer.flatten_style(style))
 
     def _has_parent(self):