Common CSS text properties

HISTORY.rst

@@ -9,14 +9,26 @@ Release History
 **Updates**
 
 - Fix Pypi Workflow.
+- [`PR #48 <https://github.com/dfop02/html4docx/pull/48>`_] Add support for common CSS properties on text for: <h>, <p> and <span> | `Lynuxen <https://github.com/Lynuxen>`_
 
 **Fixes**
 
-- None
+- Fixes `#46 <https://github.com/dfop02/html4docx/issues/46>`_: background-color style property highlights the whole paragraph instead of a single word
+- Fixes `#47 <https://github.com/dfop02/html4docx/issues/47>`_: text-decoration style property for underline is not applied
 
 **New Features**
 
 - Add support for HTML Comments. | [Dfop02](https://github.com/dfop02)
+- Add support for text-align,line-height, margin-left, margin-right, text-indent for paragraphs
+- Add support for the following text properties (applies to \<span\>, \<p\> and \<h\> tags):
+    - font-weight: ('bold', 'bolder', '700', '800', '900', 'normal', 'lighter', '400', '300', '100')
+    - font-style: ('italic', 'oblique', 'normal'')
+    - text-decoration: ('underline', 'line-through') ('solid', 'double', 'dotted', 'dashed', 'wavy'), and the longhand properties (text-decoration-*)
+    - text-transform: ('uppercase', 'lowercase', 'capitalize')
+    - font-size
+    - font-family
+    - color
+    - background-color: Paragraph and run highlight colors can now differ. Partial support on what can be used as a color.
 
 
 1.1.0 (2025-11-01)

README.md

@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ My goal in forking and fixing/updating this package was to complete my current t
 - Fix Ordered and Unordered Lists | [TaylorN15](https://github.com/TaylorN15) from [PR](https://github.com/dfop02/html4docx/pull/16)
 - Fixed styles was only being applied to span tag. | [Dfop02](https://github.com/dfop02) from [PR](https://github.com/dfop02/html4docx/issues/40)
 - Fixed bug on styles parsing when style contains multiple colon. | [Dfop02](https://github.com/dfop02)
+- Fixed highlighting a single word | [Lynuxen](https://github.com/Lynuxen)
 
 **New Features**
 - Add Witdh/Height style to images | [maifeeulasad](https://github.com/maifeeulasad) from [PR](https://github.com/pqzx/html2docx/pull/29)
@@ -202,6 +203,7 @@ My goal in forking and fixing/updating this package was to complete my current t
 - Add support to table cells style (border, background-color, width, height, margin) | [Dfop02](https://github.com/dfop02)
 - Being able to use inline images on same paragraph. | [Dfop02](https://github.com/dfop02)
 - Refactory Tests to be more consistent and less 'human validation' | [Dfop02](https://github.com/dfop02)
+- Support for common CSS properties for text | [Lynuxen](https://github.com/Lynuxen)
 
 ## Known Issues
 

html4docx/constants.py

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 # values in inches
+from docx.enum.text import WD_UNDERLINE
+
 INDENT = 0.25
 LIST_INDENT = 0.5
-MAX_INDENT = 5.5 # To stop indents going off the page
+MAX_INDENT = 5.5  # To stop indents going off the page
 
 # Style to use with tables. By default no style is used.
 DEFAULT_TABLE_STYLE = None
@@ -48,6 +50,19 @@
     'xx-large': '32px'
 }
 
+FONT_UNDERLINE = {
+    'underline',
+    'line-through',
+}
+
+FONT_UNDERLINE_STYLES = {
+    'solid': WD_UNDERLINE.SINGLE,
+    'dashed': WD_UNDERLINE.DASH,
+    'dotted': WD_UNDERLINE.DOTTED,
+    'wavy': WD_UNDERLINE.WAVY,
+    'double': WD_UNDERLINE.DOUBLE,
+}
+
 STYLES = {
     'ul': 'List Bullet',
     'ul2': 'List Bullet 2',
@@ -79,6 +94,50 @@
     '0': '0px',
 }
 
+GENERIC_FONT_STYLES = {
+    'serif': 'Times New Roman',
+    'sans-serif': 'Arial',
+    'monospace': 'Courier New'
+}
+
+# Paragraph-level styles (ParagraphFormat)
+PARAGRAPH_FORMAT_STYLES = {
+    'text-align': '_apply_alignment_paragraph',
+    'line-height': '_apply_line_height_paragraph',
+    'margin-left': '_apply_margins_paragraph',
+    'margin-right': '_apply_margins_paragraph',
+    'text-indent': '_apply_text_indent_paragraph',
+}
+
+# Run-level styles (affect text formatting within runs)
+PARAGRAPH_RUN_STYLES = {
+    'font-weight': '_apply_font_weight_paragraph',
+    'font-style': '_apply_font_style_paragraph',
+    'text-decoration': '_apply_text_decoration_paragraph',
+    'text-decoration-line': '_apply_text_decoration_paragraph',
+    'text-decoration-style': '_apply_text_decoration_paragraph',
+    'text-decoration-color': '_apply_text_decoration_paragraph',
+    'text-transform': '_apply_text_transform_paragraph',
+    'font-size': '_apply_font_size_paragraph',
+    'font-family': '_apply_font_family_paragraph',
+    'color': '_apply_color_paragraph',
+    'background-color': '_apply_background_color_paragraph'
+}
+
+RUN_STYLES = {
+    'font-weight': '_apply_font_weight_to_run',
+    'font-style': '_apply_font_style_to_run',
+    'text-decoration': '_apply_text_decoration_to_run',
+    'text-decoration-line': '_apply_text_decoration_line_to_run',
+    'text-decoration-style': '_apply_text_decoration_style_to_run',
+    'text-decoration-color': '_apply_text_decoration_color_to_run',
+    'text-transform': '_apply_text_transform_to_run',
+    'font-size': '_apply_font_size_to_run',
+    'font-family': '_apply_font_family_to_run',
+    'color': '_apply_color_to_run',
+    'background-color': '_apply_background_color_to_run'
+}
+
 def default_borders():
     return {
         "top": {"size": DEFAULT_BORDER_SIZE, "color": DEFAULT_BORDER_COLOR, "style": DEFAULT_BORDER_STYLE},