Can HTML <span> tag be used to format text in editor?

[anargha]

I am setting up a self hosted Discourse forum. Thumbs up for the well documented install process and Kudos to the community for active support in forums !

Recently I noticed that I was unable to color text using HTML span tag as follows.

<span style="color: #ff0000;">test</span>

Am I missing some plugin for this? I have used discourse-bbcode-color successfully. So coloring seems to work otherwise.

Screenshot is attached for reference. Thanks!

[rahim123]

Formatting posts using markdown, BBCode, and HTML

Text color and text background color doesn’t seem to work with <span> or bbcode, am I missing something? <span style="color:red">some red markdown text</span> some red markdown text bbcode: [color=red]Red color text[/color] [color=red]Red color text[/color]

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

Welcome, Anargha!

Alternatively, there’s an official BBCode plugin that supports colors plus other tags:

Discourse BBCode

Summary Discourse BBCode adds the ability to use BBCode to format posts. Hosted by us? This plugin is available on our Enterprise plans Self-host Install Install plugins on a self-hosted site Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbcode The Discourse BBCode plugin enhances the Markdown composer [1] with support for the BBCode syntax beyond what is included by default (i.e. [i], [b], [s], [u], […

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[anargha]

Thanks for pointing to custom styling. And yes, I am enjoying customizing discourse for my community. !