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How do I color — some but NOT all — text in a sentence, in HTML5?

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My corporation has a discussion forum that uses HTML. I'm uncertain if this is HTML5, and if it also uses CSS.

<font color="red">Color this red.</font> failed, probably because "The color attribute is not supported by HTML5".

<p style="color:red;">Red paragraph text</p> worked. But this code DOESN'T answer my question — because I want just some but NOT ALL text, in a sentence, coloured. I don't want the whole para. colored!

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The font element is depreciated

An easy way to do it is to use span elements. That page has a good example of what you want. Simply do something like

<p>Blah blah <span class="special">special text</span> blah blah</p>

You can easily style the special text with CSS. If the styling is not purely decorative though, I would recommend using sematic HTML and using, for instance strong or b, both of which are used to draw emphasis to certain parts of a text. Though they default to boldface, you can change the styling however you want.

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