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ansi-to-pre
Advanced tools
Convert a string of terminal output with ANSI escape codes into a
<pre>
tag with styled spans (for putting in docs and web
pages), or a flattened ANSI
string with normalized color codes
(for use with other ANSI-parsing programs that only support
colors but not control codes).
Colors are supported of course, but so is the full suite of
cursor motion, partial/full erasing, etc. Basically, everything
that ink
outputs, it
will resolve and turn into an HTML or flattened ANSI
representation.
import { ansiToPre, ansiToAnsi } from 'ansi-to-pre'
// or however you get a colored ansi code string
import chalk from 'chalk'
const s = `
${chalk.red('red text')}
${chalk.blue('blue' + chalk.bold('bold'))}
`
console.log(ansiToPre(s))
/*
<pre style="background:#222222;color:#eeeeee;position:relative">
<span style="color:red">red text</span>
<span style="color:blue">blue</span><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold">bold</span>
</pre>
*/
Emojis are tricky to work with in JavaScript! Sometimes a single emoji glyph is one character wide, sometimes two, sometimes something in between. Regardless of CSS line-height or font-size, it might be taller than other characters in the line, causing weird spacing that makes your HTML not look like a faithful representation of the ANSI that printed to your terminal.
To address this irregularity, ansiToPre
will replace all emoji
characters with an absolutely positioned span
, nudged up
0.3ex
from its default position, followed by 2 spaces. In my
testing, in most monospace fonts checked, this is about the best
way to make the emoji show up in the right place in the line,
with enough space to be shown fully. Occasionally, for narrower
emojis, this can result in some extra space, but that's usually
better than cutting them off or overlapping other characters.
By default, there are colors assigned to the root pre
tag and
the 16 basic ANSI colors, for a relatively basic dark theme.
To change the default colors or the theme, see the theme()
method (and others) described below.
If there's a hyperlink in the ANSI string, using the OSC code
\x1b]8;;<url>\x1b\
, then it will be turned into an <a>
tag in
the HTML output.
You can also use terminal.setStyle({ href: '...' })
to write
everything from that point forward as a hyperlink, and call
.setStyle({ href: '' })
to stop writing in hyperlink mode.
I needed a way to put the output from tap reports into the documentation, and wasn't able to find an ANSI-to-HTML converter that handled the full set of cursor movements, erases, scrolling, etc. that a complicated ink program outputs. There are several that do colors, and a handful that do the other text styling like bold and underline, but none that handle cursor movement codes. So I was still doing a bunch of manual editing of the files before converting the styles to css, or cleaning up mochibake after conversion. No fun.
I called it ansi-to-pre
, because dropping ANSI output into a
<pre>
tag is my main use case, but you could conceivably do a
bunch of other interesting stuff with a virtual ANSI terminal, I
guess. You could even use the Terminal
class as a sort of
chalk
replacement that write to random places in the string of
output, but to be honest, chalk
has a much nicer API for most
cases where you just want styled text, and ink
is a better tool
for complicated "write stuff to the terminal" tasks.
import {
// main functions
ansiToPre,
ansiToAnsi,
// classes
Terminal,
Block,
Style,
// other goodies
theme,
defaultColor,
defaultBackground,
nameCodes,
codeNames,
namedColors,
namedBrightColors,
xtermCode,
} from 'ansi-to-pre'
ansiToPre(ansi: string): string
Turn an ANSI string into a styled HTML <pre>
tag.
ansiToAnsi(ansi: string): string
Resolve all control codes and return an ANSI color style representation of the result.
Terminal
A representation of a virtual "terminal" screen where character and style information as the ANSI-encoded stream is parsed.
Important: this is not a full-fledged Stream class. You can
write()
to it multiple times, and it will update appropriately,
but it does zero buffering or input validation, so writing a
partial ANSI code sequence will result in mochibake in the
output.
The virtual terminal is an infinitely high and wide screen, with
no scrollback buffer. So, when scrollDown(n)
is called (either
explicitly, or with a \x1b[<n>S
ANSI code), n
lines are
removed from the top of the "screen". When scrollUp(n)
is
called (explicitly or via a \x1b[<n>T
ANSI code), n
empty
lines are added to the top of the screen; the lines lost to a
previous scrollDown
action are not restored when scrolling up.
Also, actions that move the cursor down or to the right, which
would on a normal physical terminal be limited to the
height/width of the terminal, are unbounded. For example, on an
actual terminal, echo $'\x1b[1000Bhello'
will print "hello" at
the bottom of the screen (unless your screen happens to be more
than 1000 lines high); in this virtual terminal, it will create
1000 empty lines.
Most of the methods (other than toString()
of course) return
this
, allowing for things like this:
console.log(
new Terminal()
.setStyle({ color: '#ff0000' })
.write('hello, ')
.down(1)
.setStyle({ inverse: true })
.write('world!').ansi,
)
Outputs:
constructor(input?: string)
Create a new Terminal
instance. If provided, the string is
written immediately.
ansi: string
A representation of the current state of the Terminal as a
normalized ANSI encoded string. All cursor codes resolved, and
colors normalized to 48;2;r;g;b
format.
blocks: Block[]
An array of Block
objects each representing a string of text
with a given style.
toString(): string
Returns an HTML representation of the text and styles as a pre
tag with styled span
children.
write(input: string): Terminal
Parse the ANSI encoded string provided, updating the internal character and style buffers appropriately.
setStyle(style: StyleProps | string): Terminal
Set the style that the terminal will use for text writes.
If a string, must be a valid \x1b[...m
and/or
\x1b]8;;<url>\x1b\
ANSI code.
The styles provided will be appended onto the current style in use, just as they would be by a real terminal if the relevant ANSI code is encountered.
up(n: number): Terminal
Move the cursor up n
lines, stopping at the top.
down(n: number): Terminal
Move the cursor down n
lines, without limit.
scrollUp(n: number): Terminal
Prepend n
empty lines at the start of the buffer, effectively
moving the cursor up as a result.
scrollDown(n: number): Terminal
Remove n
lines from the start of the buffer, effectively moving
the cursor down as a result.
forward(n): Terminal
Move the cursor forward n
columns, without limit.
back(n): Terminal
Move the cursor back n
columns, stopping at the first column.
nextLine(n): Terminal
Move to the start of the n
-th next line.
prevLine(n): Terminal
Move to the start of the n
-th previous line, stopping at the
top of the screen.
horizontalPosition(n): Terminal
Move to the n
-th column (1-indexed), limited by the left-most
column.
position(row, column): Terminal
Move to the 1-indexed row and column specified, limited by the top and left sides of the screen.
eraseScreen(): Terminal
Delete all printed data from the screen.
Note that this is used for both \x1b[2J
and \x1b[3J
,
because there is no scrollback buffer in this virtual terminal.
eraseScreenToEnd(): Terminal
Delete all printed data from the cursor to the end of the screen.
eraseScreenFromStart(): Terminal
Delete all printed data from the top of the screen to the cursor.
eraseLine(): Terminal
Delete the contents of the current line.
eraseLineToEnd(): Terminal
Delete printed data from the cursor to the end of the current line.
Delete printed data from the start of the current line to the cursor.
Block
A representation of a run of text in a given style.
write(text): Block
Append text to the block
ansi
(read-only)A representation of the block as an ANSI styled string.
text
(read-only)The unstyled text that will be written.
style
(read-only)The Style object for this block of text.
Style
An immutable representation of an ANSI style. Used by Terminal and Block to represent the styles in use for text to be printed.
If a Style object is created with the same properties as a formerly seen Style object, the same object will be returned.
For example:
const a = new Style({ bold: true })
const b = new Style({ bold: true })
assert.equal(a, b) // passes
This optimization cuts down considerably on object creation,
because a Style is created for each styled character written to
the Terminal buffer. It also means that Style objects can be
compared directly with ===
to test for equivalence.
propertiesAnsi(styles): string
Convert a set of properties to an ANSI style code
ansiProperties(styles): string
Convert an ANSI style code to a set of properties
update(properties: Style | string): Style
Return a new Style with this one plus the updated properties.
If a string is provided, must be a valid \x1b[...m
ANSI style
code, though unrecognized properties within that code will be
ignored rather than throwing an error.
toString(): string
A CSS string corresponding to the style properties set.
isReset: boolean
True if this style is a full reset of all properties.
ansi: string
A \x1b[...m
ANSI code corresponding to this style.
defaultBackground(s?: string): string
, defaultColor(s?: string): string
The hex codes set on the <pre>
for background
and color
,
and used as the "unstyled" colors.
Call with a string to change the color used.
Names
Canonical names for the 8 standard colors.
Theme
export type Theme = {
defaultColor?: string
defaultBackground?: string
named?: { [name in Names]?: string }
bright?: { [name in Names]?: string }
}
A representation of the theme used for the default color and background, 8 standard colors, and 8 bright variants.
theme: (t?: Theme): Theme
Call to get or set the color theme for the default color and background, 8 standard colors, and 8 bright variants.
Returns the theme in use.
For example:
import { theme } from 'ansi-to-pre'
// solarized dark with full-saturation brights
theme({
defaultColor: '#000000',
defaultBackground: '#eee8d5',
// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarized#Colors
named: {
black: '#002b36',
red: '#dc322f',
green: '#859900',
yellow: '#b58900',
blue: '#268bd2',
magenta: '#d33682',
cyan: '#2aa198',
white: '#fdf6e3',
},
bright: {
black: '#586e75',
red: '#ff0000',
green: '#00ff00',
yellow: '#ffff00',
blue: '#0000ff',
magenta: '#ff00ff',
cyan: '#00ffff',
white: '#ffffff',
},
})
nameCodes: { [name in Names]: NameCodes }
Mapping of the named colors to their ANSI bitwise grb
numeric
color codes. For example, nameCodes.black === 0
.
codeNames: Names[]
A mapping of the codes 0-7 to their canonical names. For example,
codeNames[0] === 'black'
.
namedColors: string[]
Mapping of the named color codes to their HEX color represenations. May be modified to change theme.
namedBrightColors: string[]
Mapping of named color codes to the HEX color represenataions of their bright variants. May be modified to change theme.
This array may be modified to change the color scheme.
xtermCode: (n: number): string
Get the HEX code for an XTerm color code between 0 and 255. May be modified to change theme.
FAQs
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