how to change unicode font colors

im trying to make a green checkmark with unicode.

<td><div style="color:green;">hi</div></td>


the code above produces green text: hi.

<td><div style="color:green;">✔</div></td>


the code above produces a black checkmark. for some reason the checkmark doesn't change its color, even though on this jsfiddle it does change its color to green. how can i fix this"?

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Try using the font Segoe UI Symbol.

Segoe UI Symbol

<td><div style="color:green; font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol">✔</div></td>

<td><div style="color:green; font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol">✔</div></td>

<td><div style="color:green; font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol"">✔</div></td>

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1180157

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