Highlight 'current' card in APEX

Earlier today I posted a solution that required a bit of jQuery to execute after refresh of a report.

Avoiding post-processing is always nice, so here's an example that is resolved during render.

I would like to highlight the 'current' card in this classic report:

Cards Classic Report

The SQL that dynamically defines these cards includes the following column, with some decider over which record is deemed the current selection.

,case when :P17_ITEM = 'SOMETHING' then 'is-active ' end AS card_modifiers

Then we can include some CSS relevant to that card group, identified here by Static ID 'my_cards_r'.

#my_cards_r .t-Cards-item.is-active div.t-Card
  {background-color : green;}

This solution should also reflect appropriately after any refresh of the card region.
If you define a declarative List region, it also uses the is-active class when the list entry is current, so this CSS could also apply.

This is different to the #CARD_COLOR# substitution string, that drives the colour of the circles where your icon/initials are.
Here I used:

,'u-color-12' card_color

Do you have a preferred solution?