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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