How to change text and background color?

Question

I want every character to be a different color.

for example,

cout << "Hello world" << endl;

• H would be red
• e would be blue
• l would be orange and so on.

I know this can be done, I just don't know the code for it.

and I want to change the background color to white. How would I do that?

Answer 1

There is no (standard) cross-platform way to do this. On windows, try using conio.h. It has the:

textcolor(); // and
textbackground();

functions.

For example:

textcolor(RED);
cprintf("H");
textcolor(BLUE);
cprintf("e");
// and so on.