TITLE: Showing that every connected open set in a locally path connected space is path connected
QUESTION [12 upvotes]: I'm trying to figure out whether my proof is correct for a question I'm trying to tackle in Topology by James R. Munkres. 
Task: Let $X$ be locally path connected. Show that every connected open set in $X$ is path connected. 
My attempt at a proof: Well, every open subset of the locally path connected space $X$ is locally path connected. In addition, the path components and components of $X$ are the same in view of Theorem $25.5$ (p. $162$), which states that if a space $X$ is locally path connected, then the components and the path components of $X$ are the same. Altogether, this implies that then every connected open set in $X$ is path connected. 
Am I right, or do I need to make any changes? Please provide your input, thanks.

REPLY [7 votes]: That's a typical connectedness argument. As pointed out by muzzlator, fix a point $x$ in $\Omega$ your open connected subset. Then consider $\Omega_x$ the set of points in $\Omega$ which are path connected to $x$ within $\Omega$. This is nonempty as $x$ belongs to it. This is open in $\Omega$ by local path connectedness. And by local path connectedness again, it is easily seen that the complement $\Omega\setminus\Omega_x$ is open in $\Omega$. So $\Omega_x$ is a nonempty open/closed subset of $\Omega$. Thus $\Omega_x=\Omega$. Note that the fact that $\Omega$ is open is implicitly used in both steps.