ANSI colours and formatting not applied to Questionary prompt title

[kotazzz]

Question

I am unable to apply ANSI colour codes or Rich formatting to the title of a Questionary prompt. While option titles accept ANSI/Rich styling correctly, passing a formatted FormattedText to the message parameter of questionary.select() has no effect.

What have you already tried?

Rich → PromptToolkit conversion

from prompt_toolkit.formatted_text import to_formatted_text, ANSI

def _rich_to_prompt_toolkit(self, text: str) -> FormattedText:
    with self.console.capture() as cap:
        self.console.print(text)
    return to_formatted_text(ANSI(cap.get()))

# Option titles work:
choices = [
    questionary.Choice(self._rich_to_prompt_toolkit("[cyan]Option"), value="opt")
]
# But title does not:
formatted_title = self._rich_to_prompt_toolkit("[red]Test")
questionary.select(formatted_title, choices, qmark="", instruction=" ").ask()

– The FormattedText object is created, but its styling is ignored for the prompt message.

Any pointers on how to inject ANSI/Rich styles into the prompt title itself would be greatly appreciated.

Please see GitHub Issue #107 in the Questionary repository for a nearly identical report, which—despite several work‑arounds—remains unresolved

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[kotazzz]

questionary/questionary/prompts/select.py

Lines 26 to 28 in 584f9ae

	def select(
	message: str,
	choices: Sequence[Union[str, Choice, Dict[str, Any]]],

The message parameter uses a plain str, while choices accepts a more complex type (str, Choice, or Dict).

[tmbo]

I think this is a feature we should add for the title - would love a PR for it 💯