title: Highlight only text in table cell
body: <p>I have an html table that is generated by java.  I'd like to simply highlight the text in a table cell without setting the background color to the entire cell.  </p>
  
  <p>I'll start by saying that I know I can do what I want by playing with the table cells.  However, this is late in the development stage and I don't really want spend a lot of time on this.</p>
  
  <p>This is what they want:
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/SF11I.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>But, if I format the cell using this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;td style="width:20%;background-color:yellow;"&gt;Last:&amp;nbsp;Thudpucker&lt;/style&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td style="width:20%"&gt;First:&amp;nbsp;Jimmy&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td style="width:20%"&gt;Middle:&amp;nbsp;T&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td style="width:20%"&gt;DOB:&amp;nbsp;12/12/1992&lt;/td&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get this:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/EWblL.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Is what they want possible with just html/css?</p>