Highlighting

I am trying to figure out the method to hightlight some text on a webpage, I am going to do this via php but I need to remember the HTML. I am thinking it would be like <font bgcolor="#00DD00"> but when I tried that it just shows white text and a black background. Can anyone give a suggestion? Basically what I want to do is to just add background highlighting to some text that is present in the webpage.

Thanks for any help possible.

 

<div class="highlight">highlighted text</div>

in your css file add
.highlight{
background-color:yellow;
}

 

I use this :

<SPAN STYLE="background: yellow;">highlighted text</SPAN>

Code (markup):

Jean-Luc