Support white background (currently always #AAAAAA gray)

[lkraav]

Hi. Browsing through style.py seems to indicate there's currently no way to override #AAAAAA with plain old #FFFFFF. Am I missing something, or is this a feature request?

[hartwork]

Hi @lkraav ,

when ansi2html started at 0a732b1 it was white…

	Dark mode	Light mode	CSS class
Foreground	#AAAAAA	#000000	.f9
Background	#000000	#FFFFFF	.b9

…but at e24757d it became gray:

	Dark mode	Light mode	CSS class
Foreground	#AAAAAA	#000000	.f9
Background	#000000	#AAAAAA 👈	.b9

I believe ansi2html probably needs one new option for the foreground/text color and another one for the background, just like as terminals seem to have. I see it in both Terminator and Yakuake. We'll need to find a good way to integrate that with the existing --light-background, so that the UX still make sense:

# ansi2html --help | fgrep light
  -l, --light-background
                        Set output to 'light background' mode.

[lkraav]

Thanks for the find. I had to switch back to https://github.com/pixelb/scripts/blob/master/scripts/ansi2html.sh for time being, because that grey background just isn't good for readability (for my eyes, at least).

[hartwork]

It's a bit of a pity that these two tools are developing in parallel since 2010 I guess. Without checking I would have assumed the former source is dead. Sigh. I have no intentions of blaming your eyes, a custom color including white should absolutely be possible.

[Juice805]

Or, more generally, allow for any passed in background color or even none.

[nevdelap]

Here is a workaround:

    content = ansi2html.Ansi2HTMLConverter(inline=True).convert(content) 
    content = content.replace("color: #000000;", "color: #ffffff;" )
    content = content.replace("color: #AAAAAA;", "color: #000000;" )