diff --git a/src/iTextSharp.LGPLv2.Core.FunctionalTests/HtmlWorkerTests.cs b/src/iTextSharp.LGPLv2.Core.FunctionalTests/HtmlWorkerTests.cs
index 1c8d0f4..17b9f4f 100644
--- a/src/iTextSharp.LGPLv2.Core.FunctionalTests/HtmlWorkerTests.cs
+++ b/src/iTextSharp.LGPLv2.Core.FunctionalTests/HtmlWorkerTests.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-using System.IO;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
 using System.util;
 using iTextSharp.LGPLv2.Core.FunctionalTests.iTextExamples;
 using iTextSharp.text;
@@ -181,6 +182,35 @@ public void Verify_Html_To_Pdf_With_colspan_CanBeCreated()
         TestUtils.VerifyPdfFileIsReadable(pdfFilePath);
     }
 
+    [TestMethod]
+    public void Verify_BackgroundColor_Style_Is_Applied_To_Chunks()
+    {
+        var styles = new StyleSheet();
+
+        using var reader =
+            new StringReader(
+                "<span style='background-color:#ffff00'>styled</span> <font bgcolor='red'>attributed</font>");
+
+        var objects = HtmlWorker.ParseToList(reader, styles);
+
+        var chunks = new List<Chunk>();
+
+        foreach (var element in objects)
+        {
+            chunks.AddRange(element.Chunks);
+        }
+
+        var styledChunk = chunks.Find(c => c.Content == "styled");
+        Assert.IsNotNull(styledChunk);
+        var styledBackground = (object[])styledChunk.Attributes[Chunk.BACKGROUND];
+        Assert.AreEqual(expected: 0xFFFF00, ((BaseColor)styledBackground[0]).ToArgb() & 0xFFFFFF);
+
+        var attributedChunk = chunks.Find(c => c.Content == "attributed");
+        Assert.IsNotNull(attributedChunk);
+        var attributedBackground = (object[])attributedChunk.Attributes[Chunk.BACKGROUND];
+        Assert.AreEqual(expected: 0xFF0000, ((BaseColor)attributedBackground[0]).ToArgb() & 0xFFFFFF);
+    }
+
     private void applyRtlRunDirection(IElement htmlElement)
     {
         if (htmlElement is not PdfPTable table)
diff --git a/src/iTextSharp.LGPLv2.Core/iTextSharp/text/html/simpleparser/FactoryProperties.cs b/src/iTextSharp.LGPLv2.Core/iTextSharp/text/html/simpleparser/FactoryProperties.cs
index f5d25de..bf051b0 100644
--- a/src/iTextSharp.LGPLv2.Core/iTextSharp/text/html/simpleparser/FactoryProperties.cs
+++ b/src/iTextSharp.LGPLv2.Core/iTextSharp/text/html/simpleparser/FactoryProperties.cs
@@ -273,6 +273,10 @@ public static void InsertStyle(INullValueDictionary<string, string> h)
                     h[key: "color"] = hs;
                 }
             }
+            else if (key.Equals(Markup.CSS_KEY_BGCOLOR, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+            {
+                h[key: "bgcolor"] = prop[key];
+            }
             else if (key.Equals(Markup.CSS_KEY_LINEHEIGHT, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
             {
                 var ss = prop[key].Trim();
@@ -387,6 +391,10 @@ public static void InsertStyle(INullValueDictionary<string, string> h, ChainedPr
                     h[key: "color"] = hs;
                 }
             }
+            else if (key.Equals(Markup.CSS_KEY_BGCOLOR, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+            {
+                h[key: "bgcolor"] = prop[key];
+            }
             else if (key.Equals(Markup.CSS_KEY_LINEHEIGHT, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
             {
                 var ss = prop[key].Trim();
@@ -447,6 +455,13 @@ public static Chunk CreateChunk(string text, ChainedProperties props)
             ck.SetTextRise(size);
         }
 
+        var bgColor = Markup.DecodeColor(props[key: "bgcolor"]);
+
+        if (bgColor != null)
+        {
+            ck.SetBackground(bgColor);
+        }
+
         ck.SetHyphenation(GetHyphenation(props));
 
         return ck;