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    Posted by mschill  · 12-05-2025 - 07:59

    Dear PHPDocx Team,

    We are using embedHTML to export structured HTML tables to Word.
    We apply style="background-color: #D9D9D9" directly to <td> elements in order to highlight specific table rows.

    In the generated DOCX file, the cell appears correctly shaded.

    However, it seems that an additional text highlight (w:highlight) is also applied.
    As a result, even though the cell looks fine visually, users must also manually adjust or remove the text highlight when changing the shading color in Word – otherwise, the text retains the original background color from the highlight.

    Our question:

        Is there a way to use embedHTML() so that only cell shading is applied, without any additional text highlighting?

        If not, would you consider adding an option such as "textHighlight" => false or "pureCellBackground" in a future release?

    Thank you very much in advance for your feedback!

    Best regards,
    Anna