What are the correct attributes to highlight cells?

[t m]

I am using Confluence 6.4.1. I have a page with two column sections, each section contains a single table. The tables have a few columns and several rows.

If I highlight a row and use the "Change cell colour" drop-down to set the colour of the row's cells the appropriate colour is applied.

Upon viewing the HTML ("Open in source editor") I see that different attributes are used to implement this, depending on which table I apply this to first.

Sometimes this is used:

<td class="highlight-green" highlight-colour="green">

however, sometimes this is used (this maybe depends on which table I chose to perform the operation on first, but I have not figured what the logic is here):

<td class="confluenceTdhighlight-green" data-highlight-colour="green">

Depending on how I edit the source to make these match, when I close and re-open the source editor, sometimes some of my edits are replaced, sometimes they are not.

Which is the *correct* way?

If I am updating the tables via the API, which attributes are the correct ones to use to highlight cells in a row?

[Shawn C · Accepted solution]

Hi T, 

Both options are correct and you really do not need to change one to the other as they both should render without issues.  

For reference, the current HTML for Table Cell green highlighting is:

<td class="highlight-green" highlight-colour="green">

Cheers,
Shawn