From 9af9d9e69b18aa0174d07a8dd15cc906da94c02c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: geb <reach.fmk@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 09:07:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fixed element properties for highlighted text

---
 docxtpl/richtext.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docxtpl/richtext.py b/docxtpl/richtext.py
index fc2a488..02ab0b9 100644
--- a/docxtpl/richtext.py
+++ b/docxtpl/richtext.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ class RichText(object):
         if highlight:
             if highlight[0] == '#':
                 highlight = highlight[1:]
-            prop += u'<w:highlight w:val="%s"/>' % highlight
+            prop += u'<w:shd w:fill="%s"/>' % highlight
         if size:
             prop += u'<w:sz w:val="%s"/>' % size
             prop += u'<w:szCs w:val="%s"/>' % size