PromptPlus

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

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The Switch control paints its output in named regions. Each region is a SwitchStyles value you can recolor per control instance.

ℹ️ Styling is per control — there is no global “style all switches” 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 SwitchStyles regions

Region	What it paints
Prompt	The prompt text
Answer	The confirmed state
Description	The description line under the prompt
Tooltips	The keyboard-hint line
Marker	The moving thumb that indicates the current position
Ranger	The state delimiters
SwitchOn	The track fill when the state is on
SwitchOff	The track fill when the state is off
Error	The error line

⚠️ The on/off region names are spelled SwitchOn and SwitchOff in the enum (no second c) — use them exactly as shown.

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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
    .Switch("Use cache")
    .Styles(SwitchStyles.SwitchOn,  new Style(Color.Black, Color.Darkgreen))
    .Styles(SwitchStyles.SwitchOff, new Style(Color.Black, Color.Darkred))
    .Styles(SwitchStyles.Prompt,   Color.Yellow)              // Color shorthand (foreground)
    .Run();

To reuse a theme across switches, 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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