font bgcolor css

I need to set the font backgroundcolor via css but there are no tags assosiated with the font can i do that ?

also i have font in a td table, and want to set that fonts backcolor also but not affect the td

I can't find a way to make it so that all text in the body has a certain background color, but you could just use the Paragraph tag and change the text and background color from there.

P {color: orange ; background-color: blue}

Wrap the text in a span and apply background to that.

HTML Code:

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<span class="highlighted">This text should appear with yellow background</span>

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Code:

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.highlighted
{
  background: yellow;
}

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As the span tag is displayed inline it will only occupy the space containing the text and not expand its height or width to fit the containing element like a block element would.

thanks guys, both suggestions are fine.