ENH: to_html improvement

[alefnula]

I know that the whitespace doesn't meter in HTML but this is really a strange behaviour:

>>> df = pd.read_html(
             'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver',
             match='Municipality', header=0
         )[0]
>>> df
0         Country         Municipality   NaN
1         Ukraine               Odessa  1944
2           Japan             Yokohama  1965
3  United Kingdom  Edinburgh[198][199]  1978
4           China       Guangzhou[200]  1985
5   United States          Los Angeles  1986
6     South Korea                Seoul  2007
>>> df.iat[3, 0]
'China'
>>> df.iat[4, 0]
'United States'
>>> df.iat[5, 1]
'Seoul'

Which is all fine, but if i try to convert it to HTML I get a really funky looking data :)

>>> print(df.to_html(index=False))
<table border="1" class="dataframe">
  <thead>
    <tr style="text-align: right;">
      <th>Country</th>
      <th>Municipality</th>
      <th>nan</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>        Ukraine</td>
      <td>              Odessa</td>
      <td> 1944</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>          Japan</td>
      <td>            Yokohama</td>
      <td> 1965</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td> United Kingdom</td>
      <td> Edinburgh[198][199]</td>
      <td> 1978</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>          China</td>
      <td>      Guangzhou[200]</td>
      <td> 1985</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>  United States</td>
      <td>         Los Angeles</td>
      <td> 1986</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>    South Korea</td>
      <td>               Seoul</td>
      <td> 2007</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

And also, if I specify explicitly the classes why does it always adds the dataframe class? Shouldn't the classes override the default dataframe class?

[cpcloud]

Looks like it's trying to right align using whitespace. Not sure why it's doing that.... Sigh, templates are getting more and more attractive...

[alefnula]

@cpcloud I can try to clean that up if you're not already working on this?

[cpcloud]

Nope. Please do :)