How to highlight text on your website

Today I got this new knowledge when I was updating my school's website. While adding some information about PC Fair that is going on, I thought of highlighting some of the events when the PC Fair takes place. Here is the coding.

<style="background-color: #FFFF00">You can highlight your text any color you like</span>

So, the result will be..

You can highlight your text any color you like.