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Have you ever wondered how you can highlight text on a web page?

You know, in a sales letter the key words are always highted to draw attention to them.  Well it is not obvious is it?  If you look along the text options, you can make text bold, italic or even underlined.  But where is the highlight button?

Sorry there isn’t one, but you can insert a very simple piece of HTML to achieve the desired effect.  The magic term is SPAN.  If you place the following code just prior to the start of the text

 <span style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #66FF99″>

followed by </span> where you want the high;ighting to stop.  You can see that the HTML highlight can be in any color, simply by changing the value after the # sign.  Remeber to add the span code to the raw HTML code and not to the finalised display version of the text.

Take care not to overdo your new found skill, use it sparingly ! Have Fun.