I have the below message (slightly changed):
«Enter the competition by January 30, 2011 and you could win up to
$$$$ — including amazing summer trips!»
I currently have:
<p style="font-size:14px; color:#538b01; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic;">
formatting the text string, but want to change the color of «January 30, 2011» to #FF0000 and «summer» to #0000A0.
How do I do this strictly with HTML or inline CSS?
Sam R.
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asked Jan 7, 2011 at 5:38
<p style="font-size:14px; color:#538b01; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic;">
Enter the competition by
<span style="color: #ff0000">January 30, 2011</span>
and you could win up to $$$$ — including amazing
<span style="color: #0000a0">summer</span>
trips!
</p>
Or you may want to use CSS classes instead:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
p {
font-size:14px;
color:#538b01;
font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic;
}
.date {
color: #ff0000;
}
.season { /* OK, a bit contrived... */
color: #0000a0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Enter the competition by
<span class="date">January 30, 2011</span>
and you could win up to $$$$ — including amazing
<span class="season">summer</span>
trips!
</p>
</body>
</html>
answered Jan 7, 2011 at 5:41
JacobJacob
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You could use the HTML5 Tag <mark>
:
<p>Enter the competition by
<mark class="red">January 30, 2011</mark> and you could win up to $$$$ — including amazing
<mark class="blue">summer</mark> trips!</p>
And use this in the CSS:
p {
font-size:14px;
color:#538b01;
font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic;
}
mark.red {
color:#ff0000;
background: none;
}
mark.blue {
color:#0000A0;
background: none;
}
The tag <mark>
has a default background color… at least in Chrome.
bad_coder
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answered Dec 14, 2012 at 23:58
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<p style="font-size:14px; color:#538b01; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic;">
Enter the competition by <span style="color:#FF0000">January 30, 2011</span> and you could win up to $$$$ — 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.
answered Jan 7, 2011 at 5:41
Damien-WrightDamien-Wright
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use spans. ex) <span style='color: #FF0000;'>January 30, 2011</span>
answered Jan 7, 2011 at 5:41
brian_dbrian_d
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<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.
Josh Lee
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answered Sep 10, 2017 at 15:01
user8588011user8588011
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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 */ }
Muds
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answered Nov 20, 2015 at 15:34
JayMcpeZ_JayMcpeZ_
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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>
Wtower
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answered Jun 19, 2016 at 11:23
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
answered Nov 17, 2015 at 19:51
- Change the Color of One Word in a String of Text in HTML
- Change the Color of One Word in a String of Text in HTML Using Internal CSS
- Change the Color of One Word in a String of Text in HTML Using JavaScript
The main topic of this article is utilizing CSS to highlight or change the color of any particular word in a text. We’ll go over several techniques for implementing this feature.
We will learn to color a text using internal and inline CSS. Later, we’ll look at how to use JavaScript to implement the same functionality.
Change the Color of One Word in a String of Text in HTML
We commonly see on websites that a single word in a text has a different color than the others; of course, it captures the users’ attention. Let’s discuss how we can do the same on our web pages.
In the earlier versions of HTML, we had a <font>
tag that can be used to implement this feature like this:
<font color="red">Red</font>
But the tag is removed in HTML5 and is no longer supported. So, we will learn about an HTML <span>
tag to help us do the task.
The <span>
element is an inline container to mark up a section of a text or a section of a page. The id or class attribute of the <span>
tag allows simple styling with CSS and modifications with JavaScript.
The <span>
tag also allows us to apply inline styling, similar to the div
element. However, <span>
is an inline element, whereas div
is a block-level element.
Check the example below to understand this.
<html>
<body>
<p>Hello, I am
<span style="color: red">Red</span>
</p>
</body>
</html>
CSS’s color
property gives the text a specific color. There are many ways to specify the required color; in the above example, we select the color by its name.
HTML can recognize 16 color names which are black, white, grey, silver, maroon, red, purple, fuchsia, green, lime, olive, yellow, navy, blue, teal, and aqua. New browsers can recognize 140 CSS color names.
You can check all the HTML-recognized color names from here. As we mentioned, many other ways to specify the required color exist.
Let’s have a look at different methods.
RGB Colors
RGB stands for red, green, blue. It uses an additive color scheme in which the three primary colors, Red, Green, and Blue, are combined to create each color.
The red, green, and blue parameters each have a value between 0 and 255 that describes the color’s intensity. This indicates that there are 256 x 256 x 256 = 16,777,216 distinct colors.
For instance, rgb(255, 0, 0)
is rendered red because the color red is set to its greatest value, 255, while the other two colors, green and blue, are set to 0. Set all color parameters to zero like this rgb(0,0,0)
to display black.
You can see the RGB value of different colors from here.
<html>
<body>
<p>Hello, I am
<span style="color: rgb(241, 196, 15 )">Yellow</span>
</p>
</body>
</html>
RGBA Colors
RGBA colors are an extension of RGB colors, including an Alpha channel that determines a color’s opacity. The syntax for an RGBA color value is:
rgba (red, green, blue, alpha)
The value of the alpha parameter ranges from 0.0 (complete transparency) to 1.0 (full visibility). You can also use this property for the background colors, as sometimes we need different background colors with various opacity.
HEX Colors
Hex colors use hexadecimal values to represent colors from different color models. Hexadecimal colors are represented by the #RRGGBB
, where RR
stands for red, GG
for green, and BB
for blue.
The hexadecimal integers that specify the color’s intensity can range from 00
to FF
; an easy example is #0000FF
. Because the blue component is at its highest value of FF
while the red and green parts are at their lowest value of 00
, the color is entirely blue.
You can see the hex value of different colors from here.
<html>
<body>
<p>Hello, I am
<span style="color: #0000FF">Blue</span>
</p>
</body>
</html>
HSL Colors
HSL is an acronym that stands for Hue, Saturation, and Lightness. Let’s take a deeper look at each term.
- Hue: The hue ranges from 0 to 360 degrees on the color wheel. Red is 0; yellow is 60; green is 120; blue is 240, etc.
- Saturation: This quantity is measured as a percentage, with 100% denoting fully saturated (i.e., no shades of grey), 50% denoting 50% grey but with still-visible color, and 0% indicating entirely unsaturated (i.e., completely grey and color invisible).
- Lightness: This is also a percentage: 0% is black, and 100% is white. The amount of light we wish to give a color is expressed as a percentage, with 0% being black (where there is no light), 50% representing neither dark nor light, and 100% representing white (complete lightness).
The syntax for HSL color values is:
hsl(hue, saturation, lightness)
You can see the HSL value of different colors from here.
<html>
<body>
<p>Hello, I am
<span style="color: hsl(23, 97%, 50% )">Orange</span>
</p>
</body>
</html>
HSLA Colors
HSLA colors are an extension of HSL with an Alpha channel specifying a color’s opacity. An HSLA color value is determined with:
hsla(hue, saturation, lightness, alpha)
The value of the alpha parameter is a number having a range strictly between 0.0, which means fully transparent, and 1.0, which means not transparent.
Change the Color of One Word in a String of Text in HTML Using Internal CSS
We have seen in detail all the methods of giving color in CSS. We have been using inline CSS for everything up until this point.
However, inline CSS is not a suggested method because it is only tied to the element. We must rewrite much if we want the same functionality on different page regions.
So let’s color our text using Internal CSS, defined in the HTML <head>
tag inside a <style>
tag.
<html>
<head>
<title>CSS Color Property</title>
<style>
#rgb{
color:rgb(255,0,0);
}
#rgba{
color:rgba(255,0,0,0.5);
}
#hex{
color:#EE82EE;
}
#hsl{
color:hsl(0,50%,50%);
}
#hsla{
color:hsla(0,50%,50%,0.5);
}
#built{
color:green;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>
Hello this is <span id="built">Built-in color</span> format.
</h1>
<h1>
Hello this is <span id="rgb">RGB</span> format.
</h1>
<h1>
Hello this is <span id="rgba">RGBA</span> format.
</h1>
<h1>
Hello this is <span id="hex">Hexadecimal</span> format.
</h1>
<h1>
Hello this is <span id="hsl">HSL</span> format.
</h1>
<h1>
Hello this is <span id="hsla">HSLA</span> format.
</h1>
</body>
</html>
Change the Color of One Word in a String of Text in HTML Using JavaScript
We can change the color of a specific word in a sentence using JavaScript. We need to give an ID to our <span>
tag and then get that element from JavaScript using document.getElementById(ID-name)
and call the style
property on it. Here’s how.
<html>
<body onload="myFunction()">
<p>Hello, I am <span id="color-text">Magenta.</span></p>
<script>
function myFunction() {
document.getElementById("color-text").style.color = "magenta";
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
If you want to change the color of the first word of a text, you can use the CSS :before pseudo-element, which is used to add any element. Its value is defined with the content property. If it is not used, the content will not be generated and inserted.
In the example below, we use a <div> element with a class «word» and specify its color. Then, we add the :before pseudo-element to the «word» class and add the word the color of which we want to change with the color property. After that, we specify its color.
Example of changing the color of the first word of a text:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
<style>
.word {
color: #000;
}
.word:before {
color: #f00000;
content: "Lorem";
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="word">
Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s,
when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a
type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also
the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.
It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets
containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop
publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
</div>
</body>
</html>
Result
Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s,
when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a
type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also
the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.
It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets
containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop
publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
Of course, visually, we achieved our goal of changing the color of the first word, but this is not good for accessibility. Some screen readers may skip over CSS-generated content. Besides, this breaks the concept of separating content from formatting.
Example of changing the color of the first word:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
<style>
div[data-highlightword] {
position: relative;
color: #666666;
}
div[data-highlightword]::before {
content: attr(data-highlightword);
color: purple;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div data-highlightword="Example">
Example for you.
</div>
</body>
</html>
Example of changing the color of the first word with the HTML <span> tag:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
<style>
span {
color: green;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<span>Example</span> for you.
</div>
</body>
</html>
Table of Contents
- 1 How do I change the color of one letter in HTML?
- 2 How do I change the color of one word in CSS?
- 3 How do you change the color of HTML?
- 4 What is text tag in HTML?
- 5 What is the CSS code for text color?
- 6 How do I add text to CSS?
- 7 How do you change the color of the underline on text?
- 8 What are the important parts of the CSS syntax?
- 9 Can I make a website without JS?
- 10 Which is better HTML or CSS?
- 11 For what is HTML used?
How do I change the color of one letter in HTML?
From css you can only change an elements property so you need to insert the letter “A” in another element like this: STACK OVER FLOW just the ‘A’ letter is red! STACK OVER FLOW just the ‘letter is red!
How do I change the color of text in HTML CSS?
Changing Inline Text Color in CSS For example, say you want to change the color of all paragraphs on your site to navy. Then you’d add p {color: #000080; } to the head section of your HTML file. If there is no body selector or color defined in the body selector, then the default color is most likely black.
How do I change the color of one word in CSS?
To colored just one word you can use WORD . This way you don’t have to style the whole paragraph.
How do you give a color in Javascript?
To change the font color of a text, use the fontcolor() method. This method causes a string to be displayed in the specified color as if it were in a color=”color”> tag.
How do you change the color of HTML?
In HTML, we can change the color of any text using the following different ways: Using HTML tag. Using an Inline style attribute. Using internal CSS….2. Using an Inline Style attribute
- Html>
- <Html>
- Change color using style attribute.
How do you change the color of your text?
Change the font color
- Select the text that you want to change.
- On the Home tab, in the Font group, choose the arrow next to Font Color, and then select a color. You can also use the formatting options on the Mini toolbar to quickly format text. The Mini toolbar appears automatically when you select text.
What is text tag in HTML?
The Html <text> tag is used to define the single-line text field on a web page.
How do I change the text color in Windows 10?
Open Settings > Personalization. Under Background, select Solid color. Then, choose a light background, e.g., orange and the font will turn from white to black. Then, immediately change your desktop background back to Picture and select your favorite.
What is the CSS code for text color?
Text-color can be set by using the name “red”, hex value “#ff0000” or by its RGB value“rgb(255, 0, 0). Text alignment property is used to set the horizontal alignment of the text.
How do you change text in CSS?
To do so, we change the visibility of this text using CSS to hidden first. Then we add a new text at the exact same position, using the pseudo elements and corresponding explicit positioning. Note that after is the pseudo element in use here. We use the visibility modifier once again to show the new text.
How do I add text to CSS?
CSS can insert text content before or after an element. To specify this, make a rule and add ::before or ::after to the selector. In the declaration, specify the content property with the text content as its value.
How do you decorate text in CSS?
CSS – text-decoration
- none − No decoration should be added to the inline text.
- underline − An underline is drawn beneath the inline text.
- overline − An overline is drawn above the inline text.
- line-through − A line should be drawn through the middle of the inline text.
How do you change the color of the underline on text?
The text-decoration-color property sets the color of the underline, overline, or line-through on text with the text-decoration property applied. It can also set the underline color on links.
How do you change text to bold in CSS?
To define bold text in a CSS rule:
- font-weight: Type the property name font-weight, followed by a colon (:).
- bolder; Type the value for the font-weight property, using one of these options (Table 3.7): Table 3.7. font-weight Values. Value. Compatibility. normal. IE4, N4, S1, O3.5, CSS1. bold. IE3, N4, S1, O3.5, CSS1. lighter.
What are the important parts of the CSS syntax?
The CSS syntax consists of a set of rules. These rules have 3 parts: a selector, a property, and a value.
Can CSS exist without HTML?
Without it, the internet cannot exist as of now. Mathias Bynens has given us an idea on how a mock up webpage can be created with just CSS and no HTML. We can include stylesheets in an HTML document using nothing but a HTTP header. So using the link header, we can make a page without any HTML code.
Can I make a website without JS?
You can build a perfectly functional website without any Javascript code, but all changes and updates will require sending the data to the server, and receiving a complete new page with the results. This is the original design pattern for internet web access.
What can CSS do that HTML Cannot?
Here are just a few things that you can do with CSS that can’t be done in HTML alone without resorting to quirky tricks that don’t work the same in all browsers: Set different page margins for all sides of your page. Borders, border styles, backgrounds, margins, and padding can be set for any visual HTML element.
Which is better HTML or CSS?
CSS is easy to maintain and has good community support. It is generally used with HTML to change the style of web pages and user interfaces….CSS.
On the basis of | HTML | CSS |
---|---|---|
Implementation | It is for web page structure and content. | It is mainly for design and presentation. |
How does HTML affect CSS?
In order to make use of the CSS capabilities it needs to be linked within the HTML content so that style can be added to the website. CSS will tell the browser how to display the existing HTML. CSS can be compared to adding personal style to the body. When you link CSS to HTML, it’s like dressing up the body.
For what is HTML used?
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the code that is used to structure a web page and its content. For example, content could be structured within a set of paragraphs, a list of bulleted points, or using images and data tables.
How do I change the color of one letter in HTML?
Table of Contents
- 1 How do I change the color of one letter in HTML?
- 2 How do you change the selected text color?
- 3 How do I change a specific color in Word?
- 4 Which of the following is used to change the color of an item in text?
- 5 Which command do you use to save a document with a new name?
- 6 How do I change the color of multiple words in Word?
- 7 How to change colors in a design space?
- 8 How do I highlight color change in Microsoft Office?
How do I change the color of one letter in HTML?
In HTML you wrap the word with a tag like give the tag a class and in the css stylesheet give to the class a color attribute. Example: HTML:
I like red color
How do you change the selected text color?
You can change the background color and color of selected text by styling ::selection . Styling this pseudo element is great for matching user-selected text to your sites color scheme….There are only three properties that ::selection will work with:
- color.
- background ( background-color , background-image )
- text-shadow.
How do I change a specific color in Word?
You can change the color of text in your Word document.
- Select the text that you want to change.
- On the Home tab, in the Font group, choose the arrow next to Font Color, and then select a color. You can also use the formatting options on the Mini toolbar to quickly format text.
How do you add color to one text in HTML?
So, type the color attribute within the starting tag. And, then we have to give the color which we want to use on the text. So, type the name of color in the color attribute as described in the following block….How to Change Text Color in Html
- Using HTML tag.
- Using an Inline style attribute.
- Using internal CSS.
How do you add color to HTML in word?
The most common way of coloring HTML text is by using hexadecimal color codes (Hex code for short). Simply add a style attribute to the text element you want to color – a paragraph in the example below – and use the color property with your Hex code.
Which of the following is used to change the color of an item in text?
CSS text formatting properties is used to format text and style text. Text-color property is used to set the color of the text. Text-color can be set by using the name “red”, hex value “#ff0000” or by its RGB value“rgb(255, 0, 0).
Which command do you use to save a document with a new name?
Explanation: Saving a document with a new file name or file type, the user would use the Save As command. Using the Save As command would allow the user to name the document with a new file name, file type, and saving the document to a new target location.
How do I change the color of multiple words in Word?
Click the Font Color drop-down list and choose More Colors. Word displays the Colors dialog box. Make sure the Custom tab is displayed. Using the Red, Green, and Blue controls, specify the RGB values of the text you want to change.
How can I change the spacing of the letters?
Kerning alters the spacing between particular pairs of letters – in some cases reducing and in other cases expanding the space depending upon the letters. Select the text that you want to change. On the Home tab, click the Font Dialog Box Launcher, and then click the Advanced tab.
How to change the color of words in text?
Make sure you enclose them in double quotes, and separate each word with a comma. Then in the MyColors array, list the colors you want to use for each word in the MyWords array. The first color will apply to the first word, the second color to the second word etc.
How to change colors in a design space?
There are three different ways you can change colors in Design Space: 1 Cutting a Material 2 Drawing on a Material 3 Printing and then cutting your design. More
How do I highlight color change in Microsoft Office?
Choices are changing the color only, or the color and it’s formatting while in track changes. For example, you can highlight a format change with violet and a double underline. Preferred width Sets the width of the formatting change note. Margin Sets which side of the document the formatting change note appears.
How to Change the Color of a Word With the Span Tag and CSS
This inline element allows granular control
Updated on November 07, 2018
You can specify font colors, sizes, and other parameters in an external CSS stylesheet. If you want to change the color of just one word or phrase, however, the easiest, simplest way is to use the tag inline. Inline CSS is just the way it sounds: It is added in the page’s HTML, rather than an external stylesheet.
Avoid using the tag, which has been deprecated.
Here’s how to change the color of a word using the tag:
-
Using your preferred text or HTML editor in code view mode, place your cursor before the first letter of the word or group of words you want to color.
-
Let wrap the text whose color we want to change with a tag, including a class attribute. The entire paragraph may look like this: This is text that is focused upon in a sentence.
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Give that specific text a «hook» that we can use in CSS. Our next step is to jump to our external CSS file to add a new rule.
In our CSS file, let’s add:
.focus-text {
color: #F00;
}
This rule would set that inline element, the , to display in the color red. If we had a previous style that set the text of our document to black, this inline style would cause the span text to be focused upon and stand out with the different color. We could also add other styles to this rule, perhaps making the text italics or bold to emphasize it even more?
-
Save your page.
Test the page in your favorite web browser to see the changes in effect.
Note that in addition to the , some web professionals choose to use other elements like the or tag pairs. These tags used to be for bold and italics specifically, but were deprecated and replaced with and . The tags still work in modern browsers, however, so many web developers use them as inline styling hooks. This is not the worst approach, but if you want to avoid any deprecated elements, we suggest sticking with the tag for these kinds of styling needs.
Tips and Things to Watch Out For
While this approach works fine for small styling needs like if you need to change just one small piece of text in a document, it can quickly get out of control. If you find that your page is littered with inline elements, all of which have unique classes that you are using in your CSS file, you may be doing it wrong, Remember, the more of these tags that are in your page, the harder it is likely to be to maintain that page going forward. Additionally, good web typography rarely has that many variants of color, etc. throughout the page.