How to change the text color of console using C
The following code changes the text color of console to the color defined by color value supplied. You must include <windows.h> to use this function. It works on windows only.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <conio.h>
void SetColor(int ForgC)
{
WORD wColor;
HANDLE hStdOut = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO csbi;
if(GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hStdOut, &csbi))
{
wColor = (csbi.wAttributes & 0xF0) + (ForgC & 0x0F);
SetConsoleTextAttribute(hStdOut, wColor);
}
return;
}
int main(){
int fore;
printf("Enter text color value: ");
scanf("%d",&fore);
SetColor(fore);
printf("Your color will be like this");
getch();
return 0;
}Output
