diff --git a/lib/widget.js b/lib/widget.js
index 2a86d40..5ef443f 100644
--- a/lib/widget.js
+++ b/lib/widget.js
@@ -486,17 +486,12 @@ Screen.prototype.postEnter = function() {
       top: 'center',
       width: '30%',
       height: '30%',
-      border: 'bg',
+      border: 'line',
       label: ' {bold}Debug Log{/bold} ',
       tags: true,
       keys: true,
       vi: true,
       mouse: true,
-      style: {
-        border: {
-          bg: 'red'
-        }
-      },
       scrollbar: {
         ch: ' ',
         track: {
@@ -5382,18 +5377,18 @@ List.prototype.fuzzyFind = function(search, back) {
   }
 
   if (!back) {
-    for (var i = start; i < this.items.length; i++){
-      if (test(this.items[i].getText())) return i;
+    for (var i = start; i < this.ritems.length; i++){
+      if (test(helpers.cleanTags(this.ritems[i]))) return i;
     }
     for (var i = 0; i < start; i++){
-      if (test(this.items[i].getText())) return i;
+      if (test(helpers.cleanTags(this.ritems[i]))) return i;
     }
   } else {
     for (var i = start; i >= 0; i--){
-      if (test(this.items[i].getText())) return i;
+      if (test(helpers.cleanTags(this.ritems[i]))) return i;
     }
-    for (var i = this.items.length - 1; i > start; i--){
-      if (test(this.items[i].getText())) return i;
+    for (var i = this.ritems.length - 1; i > start; i--){
+      if (test(helpers.cleanTags(this.ritems[i]))) return i;
     }
   }
 
@@ -5406,8 +5401,8 @@ List.prototype.getItemIndex = function(child) {
   } else if (typeof child === 'string') {
     var i = this.ritems.indexOf(child);
     if (~i) return i;
-    for (i = 0; i < this.items.length; i++) {
-      if (this.items[i].getText() === child) {
+    for (i = 0; i < this.ritems.length; i++) {
+      if (helpers.cleanTags(this.ritems[i]) === child) {
         return i;
       }
     }
@@ -5497,7 +5492,7 @@ List.prototype.select = function(index) {
   this._listInitialized = true;
 
   this.selected = index;
-  this.value = this.items[this.selected].getText();
+  this.value = helpers.cleanTags(this.ritems[this.selected]);
   if (!this.parent) return;
   this.scrollTo(this.selected);
 };
@@ -5545,7 +5540,7 @@ List.prototype.pick = function(label, callback) {
     self.hide();
     self.screen.render();
     if (!el) return callback();
-    return callback(null, self.items[selected].getText());
+    return callback(null, helpers.cleanTags(self.items[selected]));
   });
 };
 
@@ -9120,6 +9115,13 @@ helpers.attrToBinary = function(style, element) {
   return Element.prototype.sattr.call(element || {}, style);
 };
 
+helpers.cleanTags = function(text) {
+  return text
+    .replace(/{(\/?)([\w\-,;!#]*)}/g, '')
+    .replace(/\x1b\[[\d;]*m/g, '')
+    .trim();
+};
+
 helpers.merge = merge;
 helpers.asort = asort;
 helpers.findFile = findFile;
diff --git a/test/widget.js b/test/widget.js
index 1c8ce5a..4b029b0 100644
--- a/test/widget.js
+++ b/test/widget.js
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ screen = blessed.screen({
 screen.debugLog.parseTags = true;
 var logs = '';
 require('./tail')(__dirname + '/logs/widget.log').on('line', function(line) {
-  if (!screen.debugLog.hidden) return;
+  // if (!screen.debugLog.hidden) return;
   logs += line + '\n';
 });
 screen.debugLog.on('show', function() {
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ screen.debugLog.on('show', function() {
     screen.debug(logs);
     logs = '';
   }
+  screen.render();
 });
 
 screen.append(blessed.text({