APEX

All,
I created a tree and all looks good but iam trying to set the font color of a node as show below but it wont work, can somebody pls give me a solution where i went wrong here,

select case when connect_by_isleaf = 1 then 0
            when level = 1             then 1
            else                           -1
       end as status, 
       level, 
       '<SPAN style="color:red;">' || "ENAME" || '</SPAN>'  as title, 
       (case when level = 1 then '#IMAGE_PREFIX#Fndtre11.gif' 
             when level = 2 then '#IMAGE_PREFIX#Fndtre12.gif'
             else '#IMAGE_PREFIX#Fndtre13.gif' end) icon, 
       "EMPNO" as value, 
       null as tooltip,    url as link 
from EMP
.......

apex 4.1.1

thanks