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ECMA-48 Select Graphic Rendition Escape Codes

Select Graphic Rendition codes are a subset of the ANSI escape sequence codes and are used to add color and font attributes to the log console when running scripts.  All sequences start with ESC [ (the control sequence introducer) followed by zero (0) or more codes separated by semicolons and closed with a lower case m.  When scripting this looks like \x1b[33m which would set the foreground text color yellow. See this example script:

// log a message using bold, bright red text on a bright white background and then reset the formatting
console.log('\x1b[1;91;107mTHIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TEXT!\x1b[0m and this is not...');

As you can see, the codes can be strung out separated by semicolons which makes coding the log entries very simple.  See the table below for all supported codes in Limelight XE (version 2.2 and later).

Supported SGR Codes

Code Effect Comments
0 Reset / Normal All attributes off
1 Bold on Turns on the font bold attribute
2 Bold off Turns off the font bold attribute
3 Italic on Turns on the font italic attribute
4 Underline On Turns on the font underline attribute (color follows text)
5 - 8 (reserved) Not supported
9 Strike on Turns on the font strike-out attribute
10 - 20 (reserved) Not supported
21 Bold off Turns off the font bold attribute (same as code 2)
22 (reserved) Not supported
23 Italic off Turns off the font italic attribute
24 Underline off Not singly or doubly underlined
25 - 28 (reserved) Not supported
29 Strike off Turns off the font strike-out attribute
30 - 37 Set foreground color See color table below
38 Set foreground color Next arguments are 5;n or 2;r;g;b, see below
39 Default foreground color Sets the color to default window text
40 - 47 Set background color See color table below
48 Set background color Next arguments are 5;n or 2;r;g;b, see below
49 Default background color Sets the color to the default window
50 - 89 (reserved) Not supported
90–97 Set bright foreground color Sets the foreground color (see table below)
100–107 Set bright background color Sets the background color (see table below)

Standard Color Table

Name FG Code BG Code Color (decimal codes) Example
Black 30 40 0,0,0 console.log('\x1b[30;100mThis turns the foreground black with gray background');
Red 31 41 128,0,0 console.log('\x1b[31mThis turns the foreground red');
Green 32 42 0,128,0 console.log('\x1b[33;41mThis turns the foreground green with red background');
Yellow 33 43 128,128,0 console.log('\x1b[33;107mThis turns the foreground yellow with white background');
Blue 34 44 0,0,128 console.log('\x1b[34mThis turns the foreground blue');
Magenta 35 45 128,0,128 console.log('\x1b[1;35mThis turns the foreground magenta with bold text');
Cyan 36 46 0,128,128 console.log('\x1b[3;36mThis turns the foreground cyan with italic text');
White 37 47 192,192,192 console.log('\x1b[37;41mThis turns the foreground white and the background red');
Bright Black (Gray) 90 100 128,128,128 console.log('\x1b[97;100mThis turns the foreground bright white with gray background');
Bright Red 91 101 255,0,0 console.log('\x1b[1;91mThis turns the foreground bright red with bold text');
Bright Green 92 102 0,255,0 console.log('\x1b[92mThis turns the foreground bright green');
Bright Yellow 93 103 255,255,0 console.log('\x1b[93mThis turns the foreground bright yellow');
Bright Blue 94 104 0,0,255 console.log('\x1b[94mThis turns the foreground bright blue');
Bright Magenta 95 105 255,0,255 console.log('\x1b[30;105mThis turns the foreground black and the background bright magenta');
Bright Cyan 96 106 0,255,255 console.log('\x1b[96mThis turns the foreground bright cyan');
Bright White 97 107 255,255,255 console.log('\x1b[91;107mThis turns the foreground bright red and the background bright white');

Extended Color Table (8 Bit)

256-color mode - foreground: ESC[38;5;#m   background: ESC[48;5;#m where # is the code number below
Standard colors High-intensity colors
 0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12 13 14 15
216 colors
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51
52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87
88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123
124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159
160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195
196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231
Grayscale colors
232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255

Extended Color (24 Bit)

Limelight XE also supports a 24 bit (16,777,216 colors) mode often referred to as RGB mode.  It has the format ESC[38;2;<R>;<G>;<B>m for foreground and ESC[48;2;<R>;<G>;<B>m for background.  See examples below

// this message has R=255, G=140 and B=0 (Dark Orange) for foreground and R=255, G=228 and B=225 (Misty Rose) for background
console.log('\x1b[38;2;255;140;0;48;2;255;228;225mExample 24 bit color escape sequence\x1b[0m');

 

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