Changing the alignment and background color of specific text in a table

Question

I am trying to change the alignment (center) and background color of only certain pieces of text within a table-cell. I know how to do it for the whole cell, but how do you do it for only specific pieces of text?

Answer 1

<td>
<div style="text-align: right;">will be aligned right</div>
<div style="background-color: #999;">will have a gray background</div>
</td>

It's better if you do this properly through a css stylesheet, this is just for illustrative purposes.