terminal-to-html claims color preservation, displays green only

[jwhitfield-whisker]

I read your blog (and have been reading it more frequently) and saw the piece about terminal-to-html

What a clever idea as losing color during a paste is an annoyance.

However, your page https://tools.simonwillison.net/terminal-to-html renders everything as green.
While there's much to be loved about CRT green, a "Preview" of how great it was at preserving color , but presented in green, is sorta missing the mark, imho.

If I find time, I'll fork the repo and adjust to my desires, but thought I'd at least say something. maybe you'll have a slider/switch that de-forces the green view.

Love your stuff. kill the ticket if you want.

[slavos1]

My 5c: I observed when I copied colored output of my ls (actually lsd -alth), my terminal (Tilix) copied it as text/plain. 😦

However, I discovered there's a Copy as HTML right-click menu so tried that and it worked as expected (that square in front of . is a custom icon for a folder):

• the source:

<pre>test&gt; <font color="#A6E22E">ls</font> <font color="#A1EFE4">-alth</font> <font color="#AE81FF"><u style="text-decoration-style:solid">/tmp</u></font>               
<font color="#66D9EF"><b>d</b></font><font color="#A6E22E">r</font><font color="#F4BF75">w</font><font color="#F92672">x</font><font color="#A6E22E">r</font><font color="#F4BF75">w</font><font color="#F92672">x</font><font color="#A6E22E">r</font><font color="#F4BF75">w</font><font color="#AE81FF">t</font> <font color="#FFFFD7">root</font>   <font color="#D7D7AF">root</font>    <font color="#FFFFAF">36</font> <font color="#FFFFAF">KB</font> <font color="#00D700">Sun Nov 30 10:11:24 2025</font> <span style="background-color:#A6E22E"><font color="#272822"> .</font></span>
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