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

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Select<T> paints its output in named regions. Each region is a SelectStyles value you can recolor per control instance.

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

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The SelectStyles 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 item
UnSelected	The non-focused items
Disabled	Items marked non-selectable
Error	The validation error line
Pagination	The page indicator
TaggedInfo	The extra-info text (ExtraInfo)
Tooltips	The keyboard-hint line
Lines	Separator lines (AddSeparator)
GroupTip	The current-group hint for grouped lists

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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
    .Select<string>("City")
    .AddItems(["Seattle", "London", "Tokyo"])
    .Styles(SelectStyles.Prompt,      Color.Yellow)
    .Styles(SelectStyles.Description,  Color.Red)
    .Styles(SelectStyles.Selected,     new Style(Color.Blue, Color.Default))
    .Run();

To reuse a theme across selects, 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 and item markers these styles color
• Methods → Styles

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