ANSI Escape Codes in C – Control Terminal Cursor, Colors, and Position

Posted on August 14, 2012June 27, 2026 by Sandeepa Nadahalli

ANSI escape codes let you control the terminal from a standard C program — hide or show the cursor, move it to any position, and print colored or styled text. Unlike the old DOS graphics.h approach that only worked in Turbo C, ANSI escape codes work on any POSIX terminal: Linux, macOS, and modern Windows …

C Program to change the text colors.

Posted on July 10, 2012June 19, 2017 by Sandeepa Nadahalli

Write a C Program to change the text colors.In this program, we give the example of changing the text colors, background colors using conio.h library.Syntax: void textcolor(int_color);Here color is the integer variable, you can specify a color name also, but it should be a proper color name in capital letters.Read more about C Programming Language …