I'm only looking to format a specific string within a cell. I change that cell's format to "Markdown" but I'm not sure how to change text color of a single word.
I don't want to change the look of the whole notebook (via a CSS file).
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The answer is
An alternative way to do that, is to enter a LaTeX environment within the notebook and change color from there (which is great if you are more fluent in LaTeX than in HTML). Example:
$\color{red}{\text{ciao}}$
would display ciao in red.
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size:1.4em;color:gold;"> Golden </p>
or
Text <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size:1.4em;color:gold;"> Golden </p> Text
The text color can be changed using,
<span style='color:green'> message/text </span>
<span style='color:blue '> your message/text </span>
So here it is a perfect html css style entry inside a notebook ipynb file.
Of course you can choose your favourite color here and then your text.
If none of the above suggestions works for you, try using the style attribute.
**Notes**
<p style="color:red;">ERROR: Setting focus didn't work for me when I tried from jupyter. However it worked well when I ran it from the terminal</p>
This gives me the following result
For example, if you want to make the color of "text" green, just type:
<font color='green'>text</font>
Similarly to Jakob's answer, you can use HTML tags. Just a note that the color attribute of font (<font color=...>) is deprecated in HTML5. The following syntax would be HTML5-compliant:
This <span style="color:red">word</span> is not black.
Same caution that Jakob made probably still applies:
Be aware that this will not survive a conversion of the notebook to latex.
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