Is it possible to style a printf output?

Question

I would like to style a printf line.

printf("- %d ". $maand ." & %d " . $dag , $months, $days);

Lets say i want this line to be red as output. How can i accomplish this? I think it needs to be something like this.

printf("<font style="color:red;">- %d ". $maand ." & %d " . $dag , $months, $days"</font>");

the answer of martincarlin87 seems to work but i cant make it work when im using two printf statements and want to style one of them like so:

<?(strtotime($date1) > strtotime($date2)) ? `printf("%d " . $maand . " & %d " . $dag , $months, $days) :  '<div class="red">'
    <?php printf("- %d ". $maand ." & %d " . $dag , $months, $days); ?>
'</div>'?>

Answer 1

HTML

<div class="red">
    <?php printf("- %d ". $maand ." & %d " . $dag , $months, $days); ?>
</div>

CSS

.red {
    color: red;
}

The font tag is deprecated in HTML5.

edit

Try this for your ternary if:

<?(strtotime($date1) > strtotime($date2)) ? printf("%d " . $maand . " & %d " . $dag , $months, $days) :  printf("<div class=\"red\">- %d ". $maand ." & %d " . $dag . "</div>" , $months, $days) . '' ?>

Answer 2

This is how I did it :)

PHP:

<?php 

    $val1 = "Hello ";
    $val2 = "World!";

    printf('%s %s %s %s', $val1, '<span class="green">', $val2, '</span>');

?>

CSS:

.green {
    color: #8AD17A; //green
}

Output:

hello world text with "world" changed to the color green

Answer 3

No there is no way. But you can use sprintf() which return string.

 echo '<font style="color:red;">'.sprintf("- %d ". $maand ." & %d " . $dag , $months, $days).'</font>';