Highlighted Text with Colored Background

When typing a Blog Post, the font colors can be changed using the tool provided in the rich-text Post Editor. Unfortunately, there is no icon or tool to add highlighting to the text. However, as we shall discuss, it is possible to add highlights to the text and choose a color to appear behind a word or lines of text. This tutorial will also explain how to enclose the text within a box with a colored background.

Text Highlighting

Create the post as you normally would using the “Compose” mode. If there are some words that you want to highlight, switch to the “Edit HTML” mode and insert the following tags before and after the TEXT TO BE HIGHLIGHTED. Here are some examples of common color highlights and codes to be inserted:-

1. Yellow highlight