pandas-dev#52197 bug fix. These styling details aren't intended to be in the DataFrame. When these style elements are encountered upon parsing, the trees rooted in these elements are dropped.

Author: zbreger

pandas/io/html.py

@@ -582,7 +582,6 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs) -> None:
     def _parse_tables(self, doc, match, attrs):
         element_name = self._strainer.name
         tables = doc.find_all(element_name, attrs=attrs)
-
         if not tables:
             raise ValueError("No tables found")
 
@@ -592,13 +591,15 @@ def _parse_tables(self, doc, match, attrs):
 
         for table in tables:
             if self.displayed_only:
+                for elem in table.find_all("style"):
+                    elem.decompose()
+
                 for elem in table.find_all(style=re.compile(r"display:\s*none")):
                     elem.decompose()
 
             if table not in unique_tables and table.find(string=match) is not None:
                 result.append(table)
             unique_tables.add(table)
-
         if not result:
             raise ValueError(f"No tables found matching pattern {repr(match.pattern)}")
         return result
@@ -725,15 +726,17 @@ def _parse_tables(self, doc, match, kwargs):
         tables = doc.xpath(xpath_expr, namespaces=_re_namespace)
 
         tables = self._handle_hidden_tables(tables, "attrib")
+        self.displayed_only = True
         if self.displayed_only:
             for table in tables:
                 # lxml utilizes XPATH 1.0 which does not have regex
                 # support. As a result, we find all elements with a style
                 # attribute and iterate them to check for display:none
+                for elem in table.xpath(".//style"):
+                    elem.drop_tree()
                 for elem in table.xpath(".//*[@style]"):
                     if "display:none" in elem.attrib.get("style", "").replace(" ", ""):
                         elem.drop_tree()
-
         if not tables:
             raise ValueError(f"No tables found matching regex {repr(pattern)}")
         return tables
@@ -1170,6 +1173,7 @@ def read_html(
             '{None, "header", "footer", "body", "all"}, got '
             f'"{extract_links}"'
         )
+
     validate_header_arg(header)
     check_dtype_backend(dtype_backend)
 

pandas/tests/io/test_html.py

@@ -1495,3 +1495,28 @@ def test_invalid_dtype_backend(self):
         )
         with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=msg):
             read_html("test", dtype_backend="numpy")
+
+    def test_style_tag(self):
+        # GH 48316
+        data = """
+        <table>
+            <tr>
+                <th>
+                    <style>.style</style>
+                    A
+                    </th>
+                <th>B</th>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td>A1</td>
+                <td>B1</td>
+            </tr>
+            <tr>
+                <td>A2</td>
+                <td>B2</td>
+            </tr>
+        </table>
+        """
+        result = self.read_html(data)[0]
+        expected = DataFrame(data=[["A1", "B1"], ["A2", "B2"]], columns=["A", "B"])
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)