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

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The MultiTasks control paints its output in named regions. Each region is a MultiTasksStyles value you can recolor per control instance. Notably, the four task states each have their own region, so the list reads at a glance.

ℹ️ Styling is per control — there is no global “style all multi-tasks” 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 MultiTasksStyles regions

Region	What it paints
Prompt	The prompt text
Answer	The answer / summary line
Description	The description line under the prompt
Tooltips	The keyboard-hint line
Pagination	The page indicator when the list scrolls
Spinner	The summary spinner (shown while any task runs)
ElapsedTime	The per-task elapsed-time display
WaitingTask	A task row waiting to run
RunningTask	A task row currently running
SuccessTask	A task row that finished successfully
FailedTask	A task row that finished with a failure

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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
    .MultiTasks("Running setup steps")
    .Styles(MultiTasksStyles.RunningTask, Color.Cyan)                            // Color shorthand
    .Styles(MultiTasksStyles.SuccessTask, new Style(Color.Green, Color.Default)) // explicit fg + bg
    .Styles(MultiTasksStyles.FailedTask,  new Style(Color.Red,   Color.Default))
    .Run();

To reuse a theme across runs, 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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