I have seen in web pages that there is a horizontal bar with a color; say, green. And there is some text in the bar with another colore; say, yellow. How is it been done?
I guess you could use <s> or <strike> if you want the line through the text rather than wanting the line to break around the text. You could even use a combination of strike and NBSP but it's messy. Note that <strike> is deprecated in HTML 4 in favour of the CSS text-decoration: line-through style.
Eric's method is cleanest as it uses HTML 4 and CSS and no table for layout.