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BUG: read_html reads <style> element text #52197

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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd

html_table = """
<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>
"""
pd.read_html(html_table)[0]

  .style  A   B
0        A1  B1
1        A2  B2

Issue Description

When table cell contains <style> element pandas reads it into DataFrame.

Expected Behavior

I think in most cases we don't want this behavior. I propose to control this using existing argument displayed_only (since <style> element is not displayed) or adding new one e.g. skip_style_elements.

Installed Versions

'2.1.0.dev0+280.g0755f22017.dirty'

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BugIO HTMLread_html, to_html, Styler.apply, Styler.applymap

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