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Highlighting Text

By Eddy R.
8-31-00

What is the best way to make text stand out so that it can be noticed? By highlighting it! If you thought it wasn't possible to highlight text in your web documents, think again! It is not only possible to do it but it is extremely easy. All you need to use is a special HTML tag and off you go - the special tag is <span>.

Here is the code that will make highlighted text happen.

<span style="background-color:#FFFF99">Highlighting Text</span>

Here are the results.

Highlighting Text

Note that this effect works on Netscape Navigator 4.7 but it may not work on earlier versions of the browser.

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