set partial text color via javascript

[dodgeitorelse3]

I have been working on this code for quite some time

var ul = top.document.getElementById("sub-menu");   
    var li = top.document.createElement("li");
    var a = document.createElement('a');
	var stradd = " (tours.ini not found)";
	var linkText = document.createTextNode("<?php echo $loguname;?>"+stradd);
	a.appendChild(linkText);
	a.href = "tours_U/<?php echo $loguname;?>/tours.ini";
	li.appendChild(a);
	li.setAttribute("name", "tours_download[]");
	li.setAttribute("id", "li<?php echo $loguname;?>");
	li.style.fontSize="12px";
	ul.appendChild(li);

what I am having trouble doing is setting the color of stradd variable. I cannot figure out how to access just that part to make the font color white (parenthesis included).

 

Where can I find documentation to help me sort this out?

Edited March 7, 2018 by dodgeitorelse3

[dodgeitorelse3]

my bad I meant to put this in the javascript forum, can an admin please move it?

[gizmola]

You can't just randomly color a piece of text. What you can do however, is put a span around that section, and style the span.

[HemendraSingh]

Debugging your code & find error in each line. Check your text line in debugging a.appendChild(linkText);

[dodgeitorelse3]

thank you gizmola, no idea why I didnt think of that.

@HemendraSingh, Thank you. I will have to learn how to debug javascript and then I will see what you were getting at for that line of code.