working with text colors (foreground and background) in your script

Question

_{Friday, July 1, 2011 2:00 PM}

So I have figured out a good deal about colors, however, one thing I haven't figured out is how to change foreground and/or background colors mid-line on a read-host line.

#colors are:
#Black, DarkBlue, DarkGreen, DarkCyan, DarkRed, DarkMagenta, DarkYellow, Gray, DarkGray
#Blue, Green, Cyan, Red, Magenta, Yellow, White

Write-Host -nonew -fore red "This is--> RED  ";Write-Host -fore yellow "This is --> YELLOW"
Write-Host "This is dark green text on a yellow background" -foregroundcolor darkgreen -backgroundcolor yellow

[console]::ForegroundColor = "red"
(get-host).UI.RawUI.Backgroundcolor="Green"
$temp = read-host "This text is red, and it's a read-host."

#reset colors to normal
[console]::ResetColor()
(get-host).UI.RawUI.Backgroundcolor="Black"

read-host "everything should be normal colors now."

Thanks for any help!

All replies (2)

_{Monday, July 4, 2011 11:36 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

In script you may using,example:

Write-Host "This text is red," -NoNewline -Fore red
Write-Host " and it's a read-host.:" -NoNewline -Fore Yellow -BackgroundColor gray

$temp = $host.ui.ReadLine()
$temp

Write-Host "This text is red," -NoNewline -Fore red
Write-Host " and it's a read-host.:" -NoNewline -Fore Yellow -BackgroundColor gray
[console]::ForegroundColor = "red"
(get-host).UI.RawUI.Backgroundcolor="Green"

$temp = $host.ui.ReadLine()
$temp

[console]::Resetcolor()

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_{Monday, July 4, 2011 11:09 PM}

This is not possible with the default PowerShell host.