diff --git a/sw/qa/extras/htmlexport/data/field-shade.odt b/sw/qa/extras/htmlexport/data/field-shade.odt
index 38debcb48d0b7..2533be68c49e3 100644
Binary files a/sw/qa/extras/htmlexport/data/field-shade.odt and b/sw/qa/extras/htmlexport/data/field-shade.odt differ
diff --git a/sw/qa/extras/htmlexport/htmlexport.cxx b/sw/qa/extras/htmlexport/htmlexport.cxx
index 170213e166996..1f016f52409aa 100644
--- a/sw/qa/extras/htmlexport/htmlexport.cxx
+++ b/sw/qa/extras/htmlexport/htmlexport.cxx
@@ -678,6 +678,12 @@ DECLARE_HTMLEXPORT_TEST(testFieldShade, "field-shade.odt")
     // Without the accompanying fix in place, this test would have failed with 'Expected: 1; Actual:
     // 0', i.e. shading for the field was lost.
     assertXPath(pDoc, "/html/body/p[1]/span", "style", "background: #c0c0c0");
+
+    // Check that field shading is written only in case there is no user-defined span background.
+    assertXPath(pDoc, "/html/body/p[2]/span", "style", "background: #ff0000");
+    // Without the accompanying fix in place, this test would have failed with 'Expected: 0; Actual:
+    // 1', i.e there was an inner span hiding the wanted background color.
+    assertXPath(pDoc, "/html/body/p[2]/span/span", 0);
 }
 
 CPPUNIT_PLUGIN_IMPLEMENT();
diff --git a/sw/source/filter/html/htmlatr.cxx b/sw/source/filter/html/htmlatr.cxx
index 50a7562cb8585..d73f915725134 100644
--- a/sw/source/filter/html/htmlatr.cxx
+++ b/sw/source/filter/html/htmlatr.cxx
@@ -1931,6 +1931,7 @@ void HTMLEndPosLst::OutStartAttrs( SwHTMLWriter& rHWrt, sal_Int32 nPos,
                 pContext = nullptr; // one time only
             }
             Out( aHTMLAttrFnTab, *pPos->GetItem(), rHWrt );
+            rHWrt.maStartedAttributes[pPos->GetItem()->Which()]++;
             rHWrt.m_nCSS1Script = nCSS1Script;
         }
     }
@@ -1981,6 +1982,7 @@ void HTMLEndPosLst::OutEndAttrs( SwHTMLWriter& rHWrt, sal_Int32 nPos,
             if( !bSkipOut )
             {
                 Out( aHTMLAttrFnTab, *pPos->GetItem(), rHWrt );
+                rHWrt.maStartedAttributes[pPos->GetItem()->Which()]--;
             }
             RemoveItem_( i );
         }
diff --git a/sw/source/filter/html/htmlfldw.cxx b/sw/source/filter/html/htmlfldw.cxx
index e70e856bae819..0ad1b55d5db7a 100644
--- a/sw/source/filter/html/htmlfldw.cxx
+++ b/sw/source/filter/html/htmlfldw.cxx
@@ -539,7 +539,16 @@ Writer& OutHTML_SwFormatField( Writer& rWrt, const SfxPoolItem& rHt )
         if( pTextField )
         {
             SwHTMLWriter& rHTMLWrt = static_cast<SwHTMLWriter&>(rWrt);
-            if (SwViewOption::IsFieldShadings())
+            bool bFieldShadings = SwViewOption::IsFieldShadings();
+            if (bFieldShadings)
+            {
+                // If there is a text portion background started already, that should have priority.
+                auto it = rHTMLWrt.maStartedAttributes.find(RES_CHRATR_BACKGROUND);
+                if (it != rHTMLWrt.maStartedAttributes.end())
+                    bFieldShadings = it->second <= 0;
+            }
+
+            if (bFieldShadings)
             {
                 OStringBuffer sOut;
                 sOut.append("<" + rHTMLWrt.GetNamespace() + OOO_STRING_SVTOOLS_HTML_span);
@@ -556,7 +565,7 @@ Writer& OutHTML_SwFormatField( Writer& rWrt, const SfxPoolItem& rHt )
             OutHTML_SwField( rWrt, pField, pTextField->GetTextNode(),
                              pTextField->GetStart()  );
 
-            if (SwViewOption::IsFieldShadings())
+            if (bFieldShadings)
                 HTMLOutFuncs::Out_AsciiTag(
                     rWrt.Strm(), rHTMLWrt.GetNamespace() + OOO_STRING_SVTOOLS_HTML_span, false);
         }
diff --git a/sw/source/filter/html/wrthtml.hxx b/sw/source/filter/html/wrthtml.hxx
index 9c96d8680232e..b92b95f70e27c 100644
--- a/sw/source/filter/html/wrthtml.hxx
+++ b/sw/source/filter/html/wrthtml.hxx
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <memory>
 #include <vector>
 #include <set>
+#include <map>
 
 #include <com/sun/star/container/XIndexContainer.hpp>
 #include <com/sun/star/form/XForm.hpp>
@@ -398,6 +399,9 @@ public:
     bool m_bParaDotLeaders : 1;       // for TOC dot leaders
     // 25
 
+    /// Tracks which text portion attributes are currently open: a which id -> open count map.
+    std::map<sal_uInt16, int> maStartedAttributes;
+
     explicit SwHTMLWriter( const OUString& rBaseURL );
     virtual ~SwHTMLWriter() override;