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How To Highlight Text On Your ActiveRain Blog

Have you ever wanted to really emphasize a point in your post and bold or colored text wasn't enough? Here's a quick way to highlight text with just a little HTML code.

This is a screenshot of the first and last paragraphs of this post in Draft:

How to highlight text on your ActiveRain blog

Open the post in Edit mode, and click on the HTML tab. Now it will look like this. I've underlined the text I'm going to highlight in red.

How to highlight text on your ActiveRain blog

Place the HTML tag <span style="background-color: yellow;"> at the beginning of the text you want to highlight, and the tag </span> at the end.

How to highlight text on your ActiveRain blog

That's all there is to it! If you want to continue editing in WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) mode, you must first save the draft and then reopen it before changing to WYSIWYG.

Used sparingly, highlighted text is a great way to add a punch of color to your post. And if you're more adventurous then basic yellow, here's a list of 140 HTML color names. Have fun!

Posted by John Novak - Las Vegas and Henderson NV Real Estate on 11/01/2009 01:02 AM

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25 Comments on How To Highlight Text On Your ActiveRain Blog

NOV

That was helpful John! I've wondered how to highlight in colour! Now maybe you can do a post on HOW to DO a SCREENSHOT? lol

Hi Liz - On a PC, hold down the ALT key while pressing the Print Scrn key (which on my keyboard is just to the right of F12). That copies the screen to your clipboard, and then you can paste it into your favorite image program for editing.

For a Mac I believe it's Command + Shift + 3.

John - This is a great tip, along with the list of colors. Gotta put this somewhere where I won't forget it, altho the HTML is pretty simple.

Jeff

John - this is so ignorant - but where do i find the clipboard? and thanks!

John, You always have some great ideas.

Jeff - Once you use this, you can always refer to the code in that post for the tags.

Liz - The clipboard is just a kind of 'temporary memory' in your PC. When you take a screenshot, it copies it to the clipboard. It's the same if you copy a section of text. The clipboard can only hold one item at a time. So if you take a screenshot and then copy text, when you go to paste only the text will be available.

Theodora - Thanks! Hope this helps your blog.

Thank you. This information really helps. I am not the most computer literate person out there. Still learning.

Thanks.

I might use it occasionally,

Sparingly... there are some on AR who know how to do it who use it too much IMHO.

moderation in all things....

Thanks for shring - I am learning a lot as I go --- Have a great day!

This is realy good information. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you very much....I often feel limited when formating my posts....Keep it coming...lol :)

Thanks so much! I always wondered how to highlight. I'm bookmarking this.

John, thanks for the information, making a post stand out, or getting certain information stand out is important

Thanks

John - now I remember ... why is it when you want to do something you can't remember how but as soon as someone starts to talk about it it comes back to you.

I take stuff like this and paste it into a Word Document, saved as an HTML file, whenever I run across it.

My Word Document has quite a few of those type tags saved in that document!

Thank you John, this is wonderful. I didn't know. I've seen it on others and it does add effect, so I will play with it on my next post.

Woot.

I feel like I just learned my first word in a foreign language: HTML.

Wonder where they speak that anyway.

John HTML has always been intimidating to me. This doesn't look too difficult. I'll have to try it tomorrow when I post again. Thank you.

NOV

Thanks, John! I have so been wanting to know how to do the color text.

Thanks for sharing this tip. I am looking to try it out in my next entry.

NOV

Great idea, Thanks! I can see what a great tool this would be if used sparingly.

Wow, John! This one requires a bookmark so that I can use it (sparingly) when I feel the need (or desire) to emphasize something! :-) Thank you for the information...as I am HTML challenged.