Something you may not know about console log in JavaScript
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The normal stuff
The basics for the console.log()
in JavaScript is just this:
console.log("Hello World!");
Adding styles
But did you know that you can stylize the text you are logging? To add styles to the text you just need to add %c
to the beginning of the text that you want to style. For an example of this in action, this is the welcome message for Developer Bacon.
console.log(
"%cWelcome to the console of developer bacon",
"color:pink;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:bold;"
);
Adding more styles
To add more styles to other text in the same console log you need to add the %c
just before the second group of text. You can add as many of these indicators as you want you just need to add a new style group for each text group. Here is an example of multiple styling groups in action.
console.log(
"%cThis text will be bold. %cThis text will be red. %c This text will be small",
"font-weight:bold;",
"color:red;",
"font-size:8pt"
);