ConsoleTable.Text
1.0.1
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dotnet add package ConsoleTable.Text --version 1.0.1
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ConsoleTable
A lightweight .NET library for creating beautifully formatted console tables with customizable headers, rows, padding, and text alignment.
Features
- Create formatted tables as a string with headers and data rows
- Unicode box-drawing characters for clean borders
- Automatic column width calculation
- Configurable cell padding
- Text alignment options (left/right) for headers and rows
- Easy clearing and reusing of tables
- Simple and intuitive API
- Optimized for performance
- Support for varying column counts across rows (each row can have its own number of cells).
Installation
Package Manager
Install-Package ConsoleTable.Text
.NET CLI
dotnet add package ConsoleTable.Text
PackageReference
<PackageReference Include="ConsoleTable.Text" Version="1.0.0" />
Quick Start
using ConsoleTable.Text;
var table = new Table();
// Set headers
table.SetHeaders("Name", "Age", "City");
// Add rows
table.AddRow("Alice", "30", "New York");
table.AddRow("Bob", "25", "Los Angeles");
table.AddRow("Charlie", "35", "Chicago");
// Display the table
Console.WriteLine(table.ToString());
Output:
┌─────────┬─────┬─────────────┐
│ Name │ Age │ City │
├─────────┼─────┼─────────────┤
│ Alice │ 30 │ New York │
├─────────┼─────┼─────────────┤
│ Bob │ 25 │ Los Angeles │
├─────────┼─────┼─────────────┤
│ Charlie │ 47 │ Chicago │
└─────────┴─────┴─────────────┘
API Reference
Properties
| Property | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
Padding |
int |
1 |
The number of spaces on each side of cell content |
HeaderTextAlignmentRight |
bool |
false |
When true, header text is right-aligned otherwise left aligned |
RowTextAlignmentRight |
bool |
false |
When true, row text is right-aligned otherwise left aligned |
Methods
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
SetHeaders(params string[] headers) |
Sets the table headers. Calling this again will overwrite previous headers. Headers are not required. |
AddRow(params string[] row) |
Adds a data row to the table. Rows are not required. |
ClearRows() |
Removes all data rows from the table (headers are preserved). |
Clear() |
Clear all the headers and rows from the table. |
ToTable() / ToString() |
Returns the formatted table as a string. |
Examples
Custom Padding
using ConsoleTable.Text;
var table = new Table { Padding = 10 };
table.SetHeaders("Name", "Age", "City");
table.AddRow("Alice", "30", "New York");
table.AddRow("Bob", "25", "Los Angeles");
table.AddRow("Charlie", "47", "Chicago");
Console.WriteLine(table.ToTable());
Output:
┌───────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
│ Name │ Age │ City │
├───────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ Alice │ 30 │ New York │
├───────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ Bob │ 25 │ Los Angeles │
├───────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ Charlie │ 47 │ Chicago │
└───────────────────────────┴───────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
Text Alignment Right
using ConsoleTable.Text;
var table = new Table { HeaderTextAlignmentRight = true, RowTextAlignmentRight = true };
table.SetHeaders("Name", "Age", "City");
table.AddRow("Alice Cooper", "30", "New York");
table.AddRow("Bob", "25", "Los Angeles");
table.AddRow("Charlie Brown", "47", "Chicago");
Console.WriteLine(table.ToTable());
Output:
┌───────────────┬─────┬─────────────┐
│ Name │ Age │ City │
├───────────────┼─────┼─────────────┤
│ Alice Cooper │ 30 │ New York │
├───────────────┼─────┼─────────────┤
│ Bob │ 25 │ Los Angeles │
├───────────────┼─────┼─────────────┤
│ Charlie Brown │ 47 │ Chicago │
└───────────────┴─────┴─────────────┘
Table with inconsistent columns across rows
using ConsoleTable.Text;
var table = new Table();
table.SetHeaders("Name", "Age", "City");
table.AddRow("Alice");
table.AddRow("Bob", "25", "Antwerp", "Belgium");
table.AddRow("Charlie", "47", "Chicago");
table.AddRow("Karina", "33", "Lima", "Peru", "South-America");
table.AddRow("Jenny", "43");
table.AddRow("John");
table.AddRow("Johny");
table.AddRow();
table.AddRow(null!);
table.AddRow("Thomas", "33", "Brussels", "Belgium", "Europe", "Earth", "Solar System");
table.AddRow("Nathalie", "29", "Paris", "France", "Europe", "Earth", "Solar System");
table.AddRow("Mathias", "37", "Oslo", "Norway", "Europe", "Earth", "Solar System");
table.AddRow("Kenny", "55", "Tokyo");
Console.WriteLine(table.ToString());
Output:
┌──────────┬─────┬──────────┐
│ Name │ Age │ City │
├──────────┼─────┴──────────┘
│ Alice │
├──────────┼─────┬──────────┬─────────┐
│ Bob │ 25 │ Antwerp │ Belgium │
├──────────┼─────┼──────────┼─────────┘
│ Charlie │ 47 │ Chicago │
├──────────┼─────┼──────────┼─────────┬───────────────┐
│ Karina │ 33 │ Lima │ Peru │ South-America │
├──────────┼─────┼──────────┴─────────┴───────────────┘
│ Jenny │ 43 │
├──────────┼─────┘
│ John │
├──────────┤
│ Johny │
├──────────┤
│ │
├──────────┤
│ │
├──────────┼─────┬──────────┬─────────┬───────────────┬───────┬──────────────┐
│ Thomas │ 33 │ Brussels │ Belgium │ Europe │ Earth │ Solar System │
├──────────┼─────┼──────────┼─────────┼───────────────┼───────┼──────────────┤
│ Nathalie │ 29 │ Paris │ France │ Europe │ Earth │ Solar System │
├──────────┼─────┼──────────┼─────────┼───────────────┼───────┼──────────────┤
│ Mathias │ 37 │ Oslo │ Norway │ Europe │ Earth │ Solar System │
├──────────┼─────┼──────────┼─────────┴───────────────┴───────┴──────────────┘
│ Kenny │ 55 │ Tokyo │
└──────────┴─────┴──────────┘
Write a Table Fluent
using ConsoleTable.Text;
var tableString = new Table()
.SetHeaders("Name", "Age", "City")
.AddRow("Alice Cooper", "30", "New York")
.AddRow("Bob", "25", "Los Angeles")
.AddRow("Charlie Brown", "47", "Chicago")
.ToTable();
Console.WriteLine(tableString);
Output:
┌───────────────┬─────┬─────────────┐
│ Name │ Age │ City │
├───────────────┼─────┼─────────────┤
│ Alice Cooper │ 30 │ New York │
├───────────────┼─────┼─────────────┤
│ Bob │ 25 │ Los Angeles │
├───────────────┼─────┼─────────────┤
│ Charlie Brown │ 47 │ Chicago │
└───────────────┴─────┴─────────────┘
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
| Product | Versions Compatible and additional computed target framework versions. |
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| .NET | net5.0 is compatible. net5.0-windows was computed. net6.0 is compatible. net6.0-android was computed. net6.0-ios was computed. net6.0-maccatalyst was computed. net6.0-macos was computed. net6.0-tvos was computed. net6.0-windows was computed. net7.0 is compatible. net7.0-android was computed. net7.0-ios was computed. net7.0-maccatalyst was computed. net7.0-macos was computed. net7.0-tvos was computed. net7.0-windows was computed. net8.0 is compatible. net8.0-android was computed. net8.0-browser was computed. net8.0-ios was computed. net8.0-maccatalyst was computed. net8.0-macos was computed. net8.0-tvos was computed. net8.0-windows was computed. net9.0 is compatible. net9.0-android was computed. net9.0-browser was computed. net9.0-ios was computed. net9.0-maccatalyst was computed. net9.0-macos was computed. net9.0-tvos was computed. net9.0-windows was computed. net10.0 is compatible. net10.0-android was computed. net10.0-browser was computed. net10.0-ios was computed. net10.0-maccatalyst was computed. net10.0-macos was computed. net10.0-tvos was computed. net10.0-windows was computed. |
| .NET Core | netcoreapp2.0 was computed. netcoreapp2.1 was computed. netcoreapp2.2 was computed. netcoreapp3.0 was computed. netcoreapp3.1 is compatible. |
| .NET Standard | netstandard2.0 is compatible. netstandard2.1 was computed. |
| .NET Framework | net461 was computed. net462 was computed. net463 was computed. net47 was computed. net471 was computed. net472 was computed. net48 was computed. net481 was computed. |
| MonoAndroid | monoandroid was computed. |
| MonoMac | monomac was computed. |
| MonoTouch | monotouch was computed. |
| Tizen | tizen40 was computed. tizen60 was computed. |
| Xamarin.iOS | xamarinios was computed. |
| Xamarin.Mac | xamarinmac was computed. |
| Xamarin.TVOS | xamarintvos was computed. |
| Xamarin.WatchOS | xamarinwatchos was computed. |
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.NETCoreApp 3.1
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