How to Highlight Text on WordPress
- 1). Visit your WordPress login page and sign in with your username and password.
- 2). Click "Add New" under the "Posts" section on the left side of the screen. This will take you to the post creation page.
- 3). Type out your blog post, making note of the places you'd like to add text highlighting in the document.
- 4). Click the "HTML" tab at the top of the post editing box on the right side.
- 5). Enter this code right before the section of text you'd like to highlight:
<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000"> - 6). Place this code after the section of text you'd like to highlight:
</SPAN> - 7). Edit the "#000000" section and use the hex code for the color you want as your highlight color. A hex code is a six digit number that represents a certain color. You can find a page listing colors and their corresponding hex codes in the Resource section.
- 8). Click the "Publish" button when finished.
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