What if I want to use red text?

It may be preferable to style the highlight format to avoid unintentional styling of strong+italic combinations.

Highlight formatting can be applied by selecting your text and pressingCmd+Option+H/Ctrl+Alt+H - you can see all shortcuts by opening the post settings menu and clicking the Keyboard shortcuts button (docs).

Styling can be achieved by adding this to your code injection head setting:

<style>
mark {
    color: red;
    background-color: transparent;
}
</style>

Note: In both cases mentioned here the styled result will only be visible on your previewed/published post, the styling override will have no effect in the editor itself.

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