# ansistyles [](http://next.travis-ci.org/thlorenz/ansistyles)
Functions that surround a string with ansistyle codes so it prints in style.
In case you need colors, like `red`, have a look at [ansicolors](https://github.com/thlorenz/ansicolors).
## Installation
npm install ansistyles
## Usage
```js
var styles = require('ansistyles');
console.log(styles.bright('hello world')); // prints hello world in 'bright' white
console.log(styles.underline('hello world')); // prints hello world underlined
console.log(styles.inverse('hello world')); // prints hello world black on white
```
## Combining with ansicolors
Get the ansicolors module:
npm install ansicolors
```js
var styles = require('ansistyles')
, colors = require('ansicolors');
console.log(
// prints hello world underlined in blue on a green background
colors.bgGreen(colors.blue(styles.underline('hello world')))
);
```
## Tests
Look at the [tests](https://github.com/thlorenz/ansistyles/blob/master/test/ansistyles.js) to see more examples and/or run them via:
npm explore ansistyles && npm test
## More Styles
As you can see from [here](https://github.com/thlorenz/ansistyles/blob/master/ansistyles.js#L4-L15), more styles are available,
but didn't have any effect on the terminals that I tested on Mac Lion and Ubuntu Linux.
I included them for completeness, but didn't show them in the examples because they seem to have no effect.
### reset
A style reset function is also included, please note however that this is not nestable.
Therefore the below only underlines `hell` only, but not `world`.
```js
console.log(styles.underline('hell' + styles.reset('o') + ' world'));
```
It is essentially the same as:
```js
console.log(styles.underline('hell') + styles.reset('') + 'o world');
```
## Alternatives
**ansistyles** tries to meet simple use cases with a very simple API. However, if you need a more powerful ansi formatting tool,
I'd suggest to look at the [features](https://github.com/TooTallNate/ansi.js#features) of the [ansi module](https://github.com/TooTallNate/ansi.js).
