HTML: Changing colors of specific words in a string of text

Question

I have the below message (slightly changed):

\"Enter the competition by January 30, 2011 and you could win up to $$$$ — including amazing summer tri

Answer 1

You could use the HTML5 Tag <mark>:

<p>Enter the competition by 
<mark class="red">January 30, 2011</mark> and you could win up to $$$$ — including amazing 
<mark class="blue">summer</mark> trips!</p>

And use this in the CSS:

p {
    font-size:14px;
    color:#538b01;
    font-weight:bold;
    font-style:italic;
}

mark.red {
    color:#ff0000;
    background: none;
}

mark.blue {
    color:#0000A0;
    background: none;
}

The tag <mark> has a default background color...at least in Chrome.

Answer 2

<font color="red">This is some text!</font> 

This worked the best for me when I only wanted to change one word into the color red in a sentence.