Skip to content

feat: add support for <mark> (highlight) and <ins> (underline) tags #60

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
arthrod wants to merge 2 commits into
base: release/1.1.4
Choose a base branch
from
Open

feat: add support for <mark> (highlight) and <ins> (underline) tags #60

Show file tree
Hide file tree
Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
e628d59
Merge pull request #1 from dfop02/main
arthrod Jan 9, 2026
aadf7a1
feat: add support for <mark> (highlight) and <ins> (underline) tags
arthrod Jan 9, 2026
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions html4docx/constants.py
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
'em': 'italic',
'i': 'italic',
'u': 'underline',
'ins': 'underline', # HTML5 insertion element - underline like <u>
's': 'strike',
'sup': 'superscript',
'sub': 'subscript',
Expand Down
13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions html4docx/h4d.py
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -1681,6 +1681,19 @@ def handle_data(self, data):
font_name = constants.FONT_NAMES[tag]
self.run.font.name = font_name

# Handle <mark> tag with yellow background highlight
if tag == 'mark':
shd = OxmlElement('w:shd')
shd.set(qn('w:val'), 'clear')
shd.set(qn('w:color'), 'auto')
shd.set(qn('w:fill'), 'FFFF00') # Yellow - default <mark> color
r_pr = self.run._element.get_or_add_rPr()
# Remove existing shading if present
existing_shd = r_pr.find(qn('w:shd'))
if existing_shd is not None:
r_pr.remove(existing_shd)
r_pr.append(shd)

if 'style' in attrs and (tag in ['div', 'li', 'pre']):
style = utils.parse_dict_string(attrs['style'])
self.add_styles_to_run(style)
Expand Down