From 384a2fe8b70a62818d56eae114fd15da54f36f72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Miller <retiefjimm@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:18:51 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] CSS url() style attr--don't do when tag is empty.

---
 fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py b/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
index 7d641e89..4bd581ca 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
@@ -779,7 +779,11 @@ try to download.</p>
                     logger.info("Parsing for img tags failed--probably poor input HTML.  Skipping img(%s)"%img)
             ## Inline CSS url() images
             for inline in soup.select('*[style]'):
-                inline['style'] = self.include_css_urls(url,inline['style'])
+                # Only if there's something in that tag.  mostly for
+                # empty <span style=> where media embed failed on XF
+                # sites.  Prevents including unseeable images.
+                if stripHTML(inline):
+                    inline['style'] = self.include_css_urls(url,inline['style'])
             ## Embedded CSS <style> tag url() images
             for embedded in soup.select('style'):
                 embedded.string = self.include_css_urls(url,embedded.string)