JavaScript: Add special characters to text to print in color in the console

JavaScript fundamental (ES6 Syntax): Exercise-65 with Solution

Add Console Log Colors

Write a JavaScript program to add special characters to text to print in color on the console (combined with console.log()).

• Use template literals and special characters to add the appropriate color code to the string output.
• For background colors, add a special character that resets the background color at the end of the string.

Sample Solution:

JavaScript Code:

//#Source https://bit.ly/2neWfJ2
// Define a function 'colorize' that takes any number of arguments and returns an object with colorized versions of the input strings.
const colorize = (...args) => ({
  black: `\x1b[30m${args.join(' ')}`,        // Black color
  red: `\x1b[31m${args.join(' ')}`,          // Red color
  green: `\x1b[32m${args.join(' ')}`,        // Green color
  yellow: `\x1b[33m${args.join(' ')}`,       // Yellow color
  blue: `\x1b[34m${args.join(' ')}`,         // Blue color
  magenta: `\x1b[35m${args.join(' ')}`,      // Magenta color
  cyan: `\x1b[36m${args.join(' ')}`,         // Cyan color
  white: `\x1b[37m${args.join(' ')}`,        // White color
  bgBlack: `\x1b[40m${args.join(' ')}\x1b[0m`,    // Black background
  bgRed: `\x1b[41m${args.join(' ')}\x1b[0m`,      // Red background
  bgGreen: `\x1b[42m${args.join(' ')}\x1b[0m`,    // Green background
  bgYellow: `\x1b[43m${args.join(' ')}\x1b[0m`,   // Yellow background
  bgBlue: `\x1b[44m${args.join(' ')}\x1b[0m`,     // Blue background
  bgMagenta: `\x1b[45m${args.join(' ')}\x1b[0m`,  // Magenta background
  bgCyan: `\x1b[46m${args.join(' ')}\x1b[0m`,     // Cyan background
  bgWhite: `\x1b[47m${args.join(' ')}\x1b[0m`     // White background
});

// Example usage:
console.log(colorize('foo').red);   
console.log(colorize('foo', 'bar').bgBlue);   
console.log(colorize(colorize('foo').yellow, colorize('foo').green).bgWhite);

Output:

foo
foo bar
foo foo

Flowchart:

Live Demo:

See the Pen javascript-basic-exercise-65-1 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

For more Practice: Solve these Related Problems:

• Write a JavaScript program that prints console messages with custom colors using ANSI escape codes.
• Write a JavaScript function that wraps console.log to allow colorized output based on input parameters.
• Write a JavaScript program that logs different messages in different colors to distinguish log levels in the console.

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