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

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MultiFile paints its output in named regions. Each region is a MultiFileStyles value you can recolor per control instance.

ℹ️ Styling is per control — there is no global “style all file browsers” API. The only style-related global setting is PromptPlus.Config.ContrastRatio.

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The MultiFileStyles regions

Region	What it paints
Prompt	The prompt text
Answer	The confirmed answer shown after .Run()
Description	The description line under the prompt
Selected	The focused / selected entry
UnSelected	The non-focused entries
Error	The error line
Pagination	The page indicator
TaggedInfo	The checked-count / tagged summary
Tooltips	The keyboard-hint line
Lines	The tree connector lines
ExpandSymbol	The expand / collapse symbol on folders
FileRoot	The root folder header
FileTypeFolder	Folder entries
FileTypeFile	File entries
FileSize	The file-size column

Compared with FileStyles, MultiFileStyles adds the TaggedInfo region for the checked-count summary.

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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
    .MultiFile("Styled browser")
    .Root(@"C:\Projects")
    .Styles(MultiFileStyles.Prompt,         new Style(Color.Yellow, Color.Black))
    .Styles(MultiFileStyles.FileTypeFolder, new Style(Color.Cyan, Color.Black))
    .Styles(MultiFileStyles.FileTypeFile,   new Style(Color.White, Color.Black))
    .Styles(MultiFileStyles.FileSize,       new Style(Color.Gray, Color.Black))
    .Styles(MultiFileStyles.Selected,       new Style(Color.Black, Color.Gray))
    .Run();

To reuse a theme across browsers, 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.

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See also

• Global Styles — the Style type, per-control styling, contrast
• ConsolePlus → Styles & Overflow — full Style API and Overflow
• Visual Symbols — the focus arrow, checkboxes, and tree symbols these styles color
• File → Styles — the single-selection sibling (no TaggedInfo region)
• Methods → Styles

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