diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7f7b9559cd..92cb7abb5e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- [#1968](https://github.com/plotly/dash/pull/1968) Fix bug [#1877](https://github.com/plotly/dash/issues/1877), code which uses `merge_duplicate_headers` and `style_header_conditional` to highlight columns, it incorrectly highlights header cells.
+
 - [#2015](https://github.com/plotly/dash/pull/2015) Fix bug [#1854](https://github.com/plotly/dash/issues/1854) in which the combination of row_selectable="single or multi" and filter_action="native" caused the JS error.
 
 - [#1976](https://github.com/plotly/dash/pull/1976) Fix [#1962](https://github.com/plotly/dash/issues/1962) in which DatePickerSingle and DatePickerRange are extremely slow when provided a long list of disabled_days.
diff --git a/components/dash-table/src/dash-table/components/HeaderFactory.tsx b/components/dash-table/src/dash-table/components/HeaderFactory.tsx
index ea20bbc4bb..c0e107976c 100644
--- a/components/dash-table/src/dash-table/components/HeaderFactory.tsx
+++ b/components/dash-table/src/dash-table/components/HeaderFactory.tsx
@@ -123,16 +123,35 @@ export default class HeaderFactory {
 
         const ops = this.getHeaderOpCells(operations, opStyles, headerOpEdges);
 
+        const filteredStyles = this.filterMergedCells(
+            wrapperStyles,
+            labelsAndIndices
+        );
+
         const headers = this.getHeaderCells(
             wrappers,
             contents,
-            wrapperStyles,
+            filteredStyles,
             headerEdges
         );
 
         return this.getCells(ops, headers);
     }
 
+    filterMergedCells = memoizeOne((cellsArray, labelsAndIndices) => {
+        const filteredCells = [];
+        for (let row = 0; row < cellsArray.length; row++) {
+            const rowCells = [];
+            for (let col = 0; col < cellsArray[row].length; col++) {
+                if (labelsAndIndices[row][1].includes(col)) {
+                    rowCells.push(cellsArray[row][col]);
+                }
+            }
+            filteredCells.push(rowCells);
+        }
+        return filteredCells;
+    });
+
     getCells = memoizeOne(
         (opCells: JSX.Element[][], dataCells: JSX.Element[][]) =>
             arrayMap2(opCells, dataCells, (o, c) =>
diff --git a/components/dash-table/tests/selenium/test_header.py b/components/dash-table/tests/selenium/test_header.py
index ca6ccd1291..5d1dd7626c 100644
--- a/components/dash-table/tests/selenium/test_header.py
+++ b/components/dash-table/tests/selenium/test_header.py
@@ -142,3 +142,42 @@ def test_head005_no_warnings_emitted(test):
 
     wait.until(lambda: target.column(6).get().get_attribute("colspan") == "4", 3)
     assert test.get_logs() == []
+
+
+def test_head006_style_merged_columns(test):
+    app = get_app(
+        dict(
+            columns=[
+                {"name": ("0"), "id": "x"},
+                {"name": ("0"), "id": "y"},
+                {"name": ("1", "1a"), "id": "a"},
+                {"name": ("1", "1b"), "id": "b"},
+                {"name": ("2", "2a"), "id": "c"},
+                {"name": ("2", "2b"), "id": "d"},
+            ],
+            merge_duplicate_headers=True,
+            style_header_conditional=[
+                {
+                    "if": {"column_id": f"{c}"},
+                    "backgroundColor": "green",
+                    "fontWeight": "bold",
+                }
+                for c in ["a", "b"]
+            ],
+        )
+    )
+
+    test.start_server(
+        app,
+        debug=True,
+        use_reloader=False,
+        use_debugger=True,
+        dev_tools_hot_reload=False,
+    )
+
+    target = test.table("table")
+    wait.until(lambda: target.column(0).get_text(0) == "0", 3)
+    assert "green" in target.column(2).get(0).get_attribute("style")
+    assert "green" in target.column(2).get(1).get_attribute("style")
+    assert "green" in target.column(3).get(1).get_attribute("style")
+    assert test.get_logs() == []