PromptPlus

# PromptPlus ## **Input — Styles** [](https://www.nuget.org/packages/PromptPlus) [](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) [](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/)

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The Input (and Secret) control paints its output in named regions. Each region is an InputStyles value you can recolor per control instance.

ℹ️ Styling is per control — there is no global “style all inputs” API. Set styles on each control (or through a small helper you reuse). The only style-related global setting is PromptPlus.Config.ContrastRatio.

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The InputStyles regions

Region	What it paints
Prompt	The prompt text
Answer	The value the user is typing / the confirmed answer
Description	The description line under the prompt
Suggestion	The non-highlighted rows in the suggestion list
Selected	The highlighted suggestion / history entry
UnSelected	The non-highlighted history entries
Error	The validation error line
Pagination	The page indicator during history / suggestion navigation
Tooltips	The keyboard-hint line

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Recoloring a region

Use the fluent Styles method. A Style is a foreground color, a background color, and an Overflow strategy — there is no bold/italic/underline. A bare Color is accepted as shorthand for a foreground-only style.

using ConsolePlusLibrary;
using PromptPlusLibrary;

PromptPlus.Controls
    .Input("Name")
    .Styles(InputStyles.Answer, Color.Green)                          // Color shorthand (foreground)
    .Styles(InputStyles.Error,  new Style(Color.Red, Color.Default))  // explicit fg + bg
    .Run();

To reuse a theme across inputs, wrap the styling in a helper you call for each control — the library does not broadcast styles for you. See Global Styles for the pattern.

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Contrast enforcement

PromptPlus nudges foreground colors that fall below the configured contrast ratio so text stays readable on any terminal theme. Tune or disable with:

PromptPlus.Config.ContrastRatio = 0;     // disable
PromptPlus.Config.ContrastRatio = 4.5;   // WCAG AA target

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See also

• Global Styles — the Style type, per-control styling, contrast
• ConsolePlus → Styles & Overflow — full Style API and Overflow
• Methods → Styles

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