Many more themes have been uploaded to the VS Code Extension Marketplace by the community. There are several out-of-the-box color themes in VS Code for you to try. To do so, set a theme in the Workspace settings. You can also configure a workspace specific theme. Tip: By default, the theme is stored in your user settings and applies globally to all workspaces.

Specifies the color theme used in the workbench. The active color theme is stored in your user settings (keyboard shortcut ⌘, (Windows, Linux Ctrl+,)).

Select the theme you want and press Enter.

Use the cursor keys to preview the colors of the theme.

You can also use the keyboard shortcut ⌘K ⌘T (Windows, Linux Ctrl+K Ctrl+T) to display the picker.( Code > Preferences > Theme > Color Theme on macOS).

In VS Code, open the Color Theme picker with File > Preferences > Theme > Color Theme.Configure IntelliSense for cross-compilingĬolor themes let you modify the colors in Visual Studio Code's user interface to suit your preferences and work environment.For example: Īnimation: PulseAttention 1.5s cubic-bezier(.215. My thought was I could perhaps use a simple animation when the span has focus to make the border blink so it appears like a cursor. Probably could have done this using an input too but as input is so opinionated I wanted to prove the approach could work on a simple element first.

I know, where’s that ‘Boo Hoo’ emoji? That said, Šime pointed out in the comments that there is a draft proposal for caret-color so, maybe one day! Turns out there is no way of doing that currently with W3C HTML/CSS there is no pseudo element for the caret-style and caret-colour. However, I just pulled those pseudo elements straight out of my hat (yes, I typed something different than ‘hat’ at first). Common sense seems to suggest that you should be able to use the ‘right’ element (an input for example) and use something like :caret-color: red along with :caret-style: block in the CSS. Right, now by default, a custom caret isn’t possible. I don’t want to get into why I’m doing this, or the merits (or lack thereof) of creating a custom caret. In case you don’t know what I mean by ‘caret’, it’s essentially the cursor in an input field or other text entry area. I want to create a user input field with a different coloured caret.

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