how to use background coloring in HTML node

[nnako]

Hi.

I am trying to put some basic HTML code into the node core in order to adjust the background color of some words within my node core text. So I open the HTML editor for the node core and start typing...

When I use the color attribute style with background-color within the <p> tag, I see a paragraph with a perfectly colored background:

<p style="background-color: #00FF00"> WHOLE PARAGRAPH IN GREEN </p>

When I try to use the <span> tag together with the style attribute, I would expect to see not the whole paragraph but at least the text portion within the span as highlighted with the appropriate background color:

<span style="background-color: #00FF00"> SOME WORDS IN GREEN </span>

But as soon as I close the editor window, the <span> tag gets deleted from the HTML content.

Is there a way to set the background color of single words using HTML within nodes?

Thanks.

[Volker Börchers]

The Swing HTML renderer understands HTML 4. Old fashioned tags do work:

<font color="#cc6600">sort of red</font>

Volker

[nnako]

Thanks. Your solution fits for setting the foreground color. The background color for single words doesn't seem to come so easily if using the bgcolor attribute. I've found a way using tables. Thus I can limit the extent of background text coloring to a single cell:

    <table>
      <tr>
        <td bgcolor="#cc6600">
          sort of red
        </td>
      </tr>
    </table>