diff --git a/components/turbopower_ipro/iphtml.pas b/components/turbopower_ipro/iphtml.pas
index d441b38db6..a693ba8f44 100644
--- a/components/turbopower_ipro/iphtml.pas
+++ b/components/turbopower_ipro/iphtml.pas
@@ -2718,6 +2718,7 @@ const
   MaxElements = 1024*1024;
   ShyChar = #1; {character used to represent soft-hyphen in strings}
   NbspChar = #2; {character used to represent no-break space in strings}
+  NbspUtf8 = #194#160;  {utf8 code of no-break space character}
   WheelDelta = 8;
 
 const
@@ -3229,7 +3230,10 @@ begin {'Complete boolean eval' must be off}
       if not OnUTF8 and (Index1 >= 32) and (Index1 <= 255) then
         Result := Chr(Index1)
       else
+      begin
         Result := UnicodeToUTF8(Index1);
+        if Result = NbspUTF8 then Result := NbspChar;
+      end;
     end;
   end else
   begin
@@ -3316,12 +3320,25 @@ end;
 
 function NoBreakToSpace(const S: string): string;
 var
-  P : Integer;
+  P, n : Integer;
 begin
-  Result := S;
-  for P := length(Result) downto 1 do
-    if Result[P] = NbspChar then
-      Result[P] := ' ';
+  SetLength(Result, Length(S));
+  n := 0;
+  P := 1;
+  while P <= Length(S) do
+  begin
+    inc(n);
+    if S[P] = NbspChar then
+      Result[n] := ' '
+    else if (P < Length(S)) and (S[P] = NbspUtf8[1]) and (S[P+1] = NbspUtf8[2]) then
+    begin
+      Result[n] := ' ';
+      inc(P);
+    end else
+      Result[n] := S[P];
+    inc(P);
+  end;
+  SetLength(Result, n);
 end;
 
 procedure SetRawWordValue(Entry: PIpHtmlElement; const Value: string);
@@ -6318,6 +6335,7 @@ begin
             FixupPercentages(CurRow);
           CurRow := TIpHtmlNodeTR.Create(Parent);
           CurRow.ParseBaseProps(Self);
+          CurRow.BgColor := ColorFromString(FindAttribute(htmlAttrBGCOLOR));
           CurRow.Align := ParseAlignment;
           CurRow.VAlign := ParseVAlignment;
           CurRow.LoadAndApplyCSSProps;
@@ -6443,11 +6461,11 @@ begin
     Border := ParseInteger(htmlAttrBORDER, 0);
     CellSpacing := ParseInteger(htmlAttrCELLSPACING, 2);
     CellPadding := ParseInteger(htmlAttrCELLPADDING, 2);
+    BgColor := ColorFromString(FindAttribute(htmlAttrBGCOLOR));
     ParseBaseProps(Self);
     Summary := FindAttribute(htmlAttrSUMMARY);
     Frame := ParseFrameProp(Frame);
     Rules := ParseRules(Rules);
-    BgColor := ColorFromString(FindAttribute(htmlAttrBGCOLOR));
   end;
 
   repeat
@@ -9259,7 +9277,7 @@ begin
 
     case CurElem.ElementType of
     etWord :
-      begin
+      if CurElem.AnsiWord <> NAnchorChar then begin
         S := S + NoBreakToSpace(CurElem.AnsiWord);
         LFDone := False;
       end;
@@ -10096,10 +10114,14 @@ var
   aCanvas : TCanvas;
 begin
   aCanvas := Owner.Target;
+
+  Props.BGColor := BGColor;
   if (Props.BGColor <> -1) and PageRectToScreen(BorderRect, R) then begin
-    aCanvas.Brush.Color := Props.BGColor;
+    aCanvas.Brush.Color :=Props.BGColor;
     aCanvas.FillRect(R);
-  end;
+  end
+  else if (Props.BGColor = -1) then
+    aCanvas.Brush.Style := bsClear;
   aCanvas.Pen.Color := clBlack;
 
   Al := Props.VAlignment;
@@ -10138,11 +10160,8 @@ begin
                     end;
 
                     // set TR color, Render override them anyway if TD/TH have own settings
-                    if TrBgColor <> -1 then
-                      Props.BGColor := TrBgColor;
-
-                    if TrTextColor <> -1 then
-                      Props.FontColor := TrTextColor;
+                    Props.BGColor := TrBgColor;
+                    Props.FontColor := TrTextColor;
 
                     Props.VAlignment := Al;
                     Render(Props);
diff --git a/components/turbopower_ipro/iphtmlblocklayout.pas b/components/turbopower_ipro/iphtmlblocklayout.pas
index b2db7ea91b..2ef317a738 100644
--- a/components/turbopower_ipro/iphtmlblocklayout.pas
+++ b/components/turbopower_ipro/iphtmlblocklayout.pas
@@ -1480,7 +1480,8 @@ begin
     begin
       FIpHtml.Target.Brush.Color := Props.BGColor;
       FIpHtml.Target.FillRect(R);
-    end;
+    end else
+      FIpHtml.Target.Brush.Style := bsClear;
   end;
   Props.DelayCache:=False;
   inherited Render(Props);