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

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The Secret (and Input) 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 secrets” 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

Secret shares the InputStyles enum with Input. Some regions (suggestion, pagination) never appear because Secret has no autocomplete or history, but the enum values are still valid.

Region	What it paints
Prompt	The prompt text
Answer	The masked value being typed / the confirmed answer
Description	The description line under the prompt
Suggestion	Autocomplete suggestion text (not used by Secret)
Selected	The highlighted list entry (not used by Secret)
UnSelected	Non-highlighted list entries (not used by Secret)
Error	The validation error line
Pagination	The page indicator during list navigation (not used by Secret)
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
    .Secret("PIN")
    .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 secret fields, 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
• Input → Styles — the same regions on the un-masked sibling

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