How do I format the output window?

Yossu

By default, the Output tab of the results uses a variable-width font, which is fine for messages, but is no good in certain cases. Is there a way to change it to use a fixed-width font?

I tried clicking the Format button at the right end of the bar above the results, and then choosing Result Formatting Preferences, but no matter what I type in the lower pane, the Output looks the same.

Anyone know how to do this? Thanks

kingkeith

In my experience, after making custom changes in the LINQPad stylesheet editor, you need to re-run your query for the new CSS to take effect.

Taking a super simple example code:

"Hello World".Dump("Title")

the following custom CSS affected the "Hello World" output, but not the title:

body { font-family: Consolas; color: magenta; }

If you can be more specific about what you want to change, we might be able to tell you what CSS selector to use

Yossu

Thanks for the reply. I was setting a style on "body pre" not just on "body" which is why it hadn't worked.

JoeAlbahari

Another option is to request a fixed font on demand, with Util.WithStyle:

Util.WithStyle (
	<whatever-you-want-to-dump>
	, "font-family:consolas")

You can write this as an extension method in My Extensions

public static class MyExtensions
{
   public static T DumpFixed<T> (this T toDump, string heading = null,
                                                    int? depth = null)
   {
      Util.WithStyle (toDump, "font-family:consolas").Dump (heading, depth);
      return toDump;
   }