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**Category:** Notebook\
**Tags:** help-wanted\
**Created:** [September 9, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/why-my-html-style-color-not-shown/21336 "2023-09-09T13:47:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:**  [@DevelopMagic](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/DevelopMagic)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/why-my-html-style-color-not-shown/21336/1 "2023-09-09T13:47:57Z")
Hello,
I’m having problem with jupyter-notebook, I’ve a ipynb file in which I’ve a cell with this code:
\< span style=“color:red”\>SOME TEXT\< /span\> but i see the text still in black. What am I doing wrong?
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**Author:**  [@krassowski](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/krassowski)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 4:35am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/why-my-html-style-color-not-shown/21336/2 "2023-09-10T04:35:36Z")
This depends on what _exactly_ you type in the cell, and what is your Notebook version. The code as you pasted it in here has two issues:
- spaces after `<` (if you meant to avoid conversion to HTML please use backticks to mark it as code isntead)
- use of curly rather than programmer’s quotation marks
When there is no spurious space and programmers quotation marks are used it renders well in Jupyter Notebook v7.0.3:
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**Author:**  [@DevelopMagic](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/DevelopMagic)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/why-my-html-style-color-not-shown/21336/3 "2023-09-10T21:52:35Z")
Thank you so much! I solved upgrading de notebook version!