How to change text and background color

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I want every character to be a different color   for example   cout  lt  lt   Hello world   lt  lt  endl     H would be red e would be blue l would be orange and so on    I know this can be done  I just don t know the code for it   and I want to change the background color to white  How would I do that

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There is no  standard  cross-platform way to do this  On windows  try using conio h  It has the   textcolor       and textbackground      functions   For example   textcolor RED   cprintf  H    textcolor BLUE   cprintf  e       and so on

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You can use the function system   system  color  background  foreground       For background and foreground  type in a number from 0 - 9 or a letter from A - F   For example   system  color A1    std  cout lt  lt  hi  lt  lt std  endl    That would display the letters  hi  with a green background and blue text   To see all the color choices  just type in   system  color        to see what number or letter represents what color

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SetConsoleTextAttribute   HANDLE hStdOut   GetStdHandle STD OUTPUT HANDLE   SetConsoleTextAttribute hStdOut  FOREGROUND RED   BACKGROUND BLUE   BACKGROUND GREEN   BACKGROUND RED     This would produce red text on a white background

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You can also use PDCurses library   http   pdcurses sourceforge net

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Colors are bit-encoded  If You want to change the Text color in C   language There are many ways  In the console  you can change the properties of output click this icon of the console and go to properties and change color    The second way is calling the system colors    include  lt iostream gt   include  lt stdlib h gt   using namespace std   int main           Changing Font Colors of the System      system  Color 7C        cout  lt  lt    t t t     CEB Electricity Bill Calculator     t t t    lt  lt  endl      cout  lt  lt    t t t                     MENU               t t t     lt  lt endl       return 0

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enter code here  include  lt stdafx h gt     Used with MS Visual Studio Express  Delete line if using something different  include  lt conio h gt     Just for WaitKey   routine  include  lt iostream gt   include  lt string gt   include  lt windows h gt   using namespace std   HANDLE console   GetStdHandle STD OUTPUT HANDLE      For use of SetConsoleTextAttribute    void WaitKey     int main          int len   0 x  y 240     240   white background  black foreground       string text    Hello World  I feel pretty today        len   text length        cout  lt  lt  endl  lt  lt  endl  lt  lt  endl  lt  lt    t t      start 3 down  2 tabs  right     for   x 0 x lt len x                  SetConsoleTextAttribute console  y      set color for the next print         cout  lt  lt  text x           y       add 1 to y  for a new color         if   y  gt 254     There are 255 colors  255 being white on white  Nothing to see  Bypass it             y 240     if y  gt  254  start colors back at white background  black chars         Sleep 250      Pause between letters             SetConsoleTextAttribute console  15      set color to black background  white chars     WaitKey       Program over  wait for a keypress to close program     void WaitKey         cout   lt  lt  endl  lt  lt  endl  lt  lt  endl  lt  lt    t t tPress any key       while   kbhit     getch       Empty the input buffer      getch       Wait for a key     while   kbhit     getch       Empty the input buffer  some keys sends two messages

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