How do I format the output window?

Yossu · January 2017

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 · January 2017

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 · January 2017

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

JoeAlbahari · January 2017

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;
   }

How do I format the output window?

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