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Learn more about Labs HTML: Changing colors of specific words in a string of text Ask Question Asked 13 years, 11 months ago Modified 2 years, 8 months ago Viewed 838k times 150

I have the below message (slightly changed):

"Enter the competition by January 30, 2011 and you could win up to $$$$ — including amazing summer trips!"

I currently have:

<p style="font-size:14px; color:#538b01; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic;">

formatting the text string, but want to change the color of "January 30, 2011" to #FF0000 and "summer" to #0000A0.

How do I do this strictly with HTML or inline CSS?

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Share Improve this question Follow edited Jun 28, 2016 at 15:35 Sam R.'s user avatar Sam R. 16.4k14 gold badges72 silver badges125 bronze badges asked Jan 7, 2011 at 5:38 Mitch's user avatar MitchMitch 1,5012 gold badges9 silver badges3 bronze badges Add a comment |

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Sorted by: Reset to default Highest score (default) Trending (recent votes count more) Date modified (newest first) Date created (oldest first) 200 <p style="font-size:14px; color:#538b01; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic;"> Enter the competition by <span style="color: #ff0000">January 30, 2011</span> and you could win up to $$$$ — including amazing <span style="color: #0000a0">summer</span> trips! </p>

Or you may want to use CSS classes instead:

<html> <head> <style type="text/css"> p { font-size:14px; color:#538b01; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic; } .date { color: #ff0000; } .season { /* OK, a bit contrived... */ color: #0000a0; } </style> </head> <body> <p> Enter the competition by <span class="date">January 30, 2011</span> and you could win up to $$$$ — including amazing <span class="season">summer</span> trips! </p> </body> </html> Share Improve this answer Follow answered Jan 7, 2011 at 5:41 Jacob's user avatar JacobJacob 78.8k24 gold badges153 silver badges241 bronze badges 3
  • 1 This is a great answer! Easily demonstrates that the dots represent tags inside the paragraph tags. It really clarifies this information for anyone working with <style>. – MERLIN Commented Mar 19, 2019 at 20:41
  • Can this be done based on the index of the string? I mean like from character x to character y, how can I color it? – Debjyoti Banerjee Commented Nov 17, 2021 at 11:54
  • 1 @DebjyotiBanerjee you cannot style text nodes with CSS, only elements. The only way to modify each character's color is to wrap each character in its own element, like with <span/>. – Jacob Commented Nov 17, 2021 at 17:34
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You could use the HTML5 Tag <mark>:

<p>Enter the competition by <mark class="red">January 30, 2011</mark> and you could win up to $$$$ — including amazing <mark class="blue">summer</mark> trips!</p>

And use this in the CSS:

p { font-size:14px; color:#538b01; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic; } mark.red { color:#ff0000; background: none; } mark.blue { color:#0000A0; background: none; }

The tag <mark> has a default background color... at least in Chrome.

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Jan 16, 2022 at 9:31 bad_coder's user avatar bad_coder 12.8k20 gold badges53 silver badges88 bronze badges answered Dec 14, 2012 at 23:58 Juan Pablo Pinedo's user avatar Juan Pablo PinedoJuan Pablo Pinedo 7036 silver badges9 bronze badges 4
  • 3 A pity that the answer was not awarded. I would have awarded it to this (and fie upon those who use browsers that don't support HTML (are there still any?)) – Mawg Commented Jul 10, 2015 at 10:33
  • A simple and effective solution that does no more, and no less, than the OP requested. – Victor Stoddard Commented Nov 25, 2016 at 22:54
  • 7 The mark tag is not meant to be used for formatting. – Jessica B Commented Aug 20, 2018 at 14:52
  • 1 The mark tag adds some padding at the beginning and end of the text, so the class needs to have margin:0; in it. This is evidence that it's for highlighing, not general formatting, for which the span tag is better-suited. – Robot Head Commented Apr 6, 2023 at 18:44
Add a comment | 42 <p style="font-size:14px; color:#538b01; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic;"> Enter the competition by <span style="color:#FF0000">January 30, 2011</span> and you could win up to $$$$ — including amazing <span style="color:#0000A0">summer</span> trips! </p>

The span elements are inline an thus don't break the flow of the paragraph, only style in between the tags.

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Jan 7, 2011 at 5:41 Damien-Wright's user avatar Damien-WrightDamien-Wright 7,5244 gold badges29 silver badges23 bronze badges Add a comment | 31

use spans. ex) <span style='color: #FF0000;'>January 30, 2011</span>

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Jan 7, 2011 at 5:41 brian_d's user avatar brian_dbrian_d 11.4k5 gold badges50 silver badges73 bronze badges Add a comment | 28 <font color="red">This is some text!</font>

This worked the best for me when I only wanted to change one word into the color red in a sentence.

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Sep 10, 2017 at 15:03 Josh Lee's user avatar Josh Lee 177k39 gold badges277 silver badges280 bronze badges answered Sep 10, 2017 at 15:01 user8588011's user avatar user8588011user8588011 3133 silver badges2 bronze badges 3
  • <font color="red">This is some text!</font> – user8588011 Commented Sep 10, 2017 at 15:02
  • 14 This is not supported in HTML 5. – Stephen Commented Apr 1, 2019 at 23:55
  • 1 Deprecated: This feature is no longer recommended. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/font – arnaudambro Commented Apr 14, 2022 at 14:50
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You can also make a class:

<span class="mychangecolor"> I am in yellow color!!!!!!</span>

then in a css file do:

.mychangecolor{ color:#ff5 /* it changes to yellow */ } Share Improve this answer Follow edited Nov 20, 2015 at 16:00 Muds's user avatar Muds 4,1065 gold badges36 silver badges57 bronze badges answered Nov 20, 2015 at 15:34 JayMcpeZ_'s user avatar JayMcpeZ_JayMcpeZ_ 611 silver badge1 bronze badge Add a comment | 6

Tailor this code however you like to fit your needs, you can select text? in the paragraph to be what font or style you need!:

<head> <style> p{ color:#ff0000;font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;} font{color:#000fff;background:#000000;font-size:225%;} b{color:green;} </style> </head> <body> <p>This is your <b>text. <font>Type</font></strong></b>what you like</p> </body> Share Improve this answer Follow edited Jun 19, 2016 at 12:07 Wtower's user avatar Wtower 19.9k12 gold badges108 silver badges85 bronze badges answered Jun 19, 2016 at 11:23 Trevor Lee's user avatar Trevor LeeTrevor Lee 811 silver badge2 bronze badges Add a comment | -2

You could use the longer boringer way

<p style="font-size:14px; color:#538b01; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic;">Enter the competition by</p><p style="font-size:14px; color:#ff00; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic;">summer</p>

you get the point for the rest

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Nov 17, 2015 at 19:51 otis answer's user avatar otis answerotis answer 211 bronze badge Add a comment | Highly active question. Earn 10 reputation (not counting the association bonus) in order to answer this question. The reputation requirement helps protect this question from spam and non-answer activity.

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