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Is there any way to get colored html entities...?

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html

css

Here I want html entities in colors. As the default color is black, I want them to be in specific color without css styling. Is that possible....

    .error_number {
      color: #F00;
    }
<span class="error_number">&#10004;</span>

Thanks in advance..

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Niveditha Avatar asked Jun 04 '15 11:06

Niveditha


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1 Answers

No. HTML entities represent characters. Characters (except for emoji) do not have inherent colour.

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Quentin Avatar answered Oct 08 '22 23:10

Quentin