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

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The KeyPress (and Confirm) control paints its output in named regions. Each region is a KeyPressStyles value you can recolor per control instance.

ℹ️ Styling is per control — there is no global “style all KeyPress” 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 KeyPressStyles regions

Region	What it paints
Prompt	The prompt text
Answer	The pressed-key answer line
Description	The description line under the prompt
Tooltips	The key-hint line
Error	The invalid-key message line

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Recoloring a region

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

using ConsolePlusLibrary;
using PromptPlusLibrary;

PromptPlus.Controls
    .KeyPress("Styled sample", "Press 1 or 2")
    .AddValidKey(ConsoleKey.D1, null, "Option 1")
    .AddValidKey(ConsoleKey.D2, null, "Option 2")
    .Styles(KeyPressStyles.Prompt, Color.Yellow)                       // Color shorthand (foreground)
    .Styles(KeyPressStyles.Description, Color.Cyan)
    .Styles(KeyPressStyles.Answer, Color.Green)
    .Styles(KeyPressStyles.Tooltips, Color.Magenta)
    .Styles(KeyPressStyles.Error, new Style(Color.Red, Color.Default)) // explicit fg + bg
    .Run();

To reuse a theme across controls, 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
• Confirm → Styles — the same regions on the yes/no preset

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