How display a working Console in VSC --- solved

JavaScript
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For example “Opening a Console” tells us little.

  1. Open the Developer Console: Right-click anywhere on your webpage, is the more complete explanation.

I’ve gotten to section4: ControlFlow on the beginning JavaScript class and apparently my console closed up. On Windows-10 desktop.

I can’t get a new console which shows my javascript output.
F11 goes to full screen
F12 does nothing
go to menu Terminal>New Terminal (Ctl-Shft-') only get this little text item with the name of powershell to be displayed at the lower panel of my VSC window.
If I move my mouse over one of these txtx it says “Shell integration failed to activate”

Version: 1.95.3 (user setup)
Commit: f1a4fb101478ce6ec82fe9627c43efbf9e98c813
Date: 2024-11-13T14:50:04.152Z
Electron: 32.2.1
ElectronBuildId: 10427718
Chromium: 128.0.6613.186
Node.js: 20.18.0
V8: 12.8.374.38-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

Now the default Powershell txt says Shell integration activated. But it remains this little txt title at the bottom of my screen. How do I get it to pen up and show console results?

I’m also running FiveServer instead of LiveServer as Five seems to work better.

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Hi,

Can you clarify a bit. The title seems to deal with VS Code while the content seems to deal (at least partly) with Web browsers developer consoles…

In VS Code I can open a console simply with Ctrl+ù I can’t tell for keyboards outside of French keyboard. Another symbol on that key is %.

The very least you should know though Ctrl+Shift+P
It opens a box you can type any feature name.

Try to type keyboard for instance

Hope this helps.

P.S. In web browsers developer mode is often Ctrl+Shift+I

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Thanks, I’ll make note of Ctl-Shift-P,

I was trying to open a Developer Console for the browser. It requires running the code with A server which displays a browser then F12 will open the Developer Console for that browser Window.

I don’t have that strange character to the right of Ctrl in your comment. But I think I got it to work. I’m not used to VSC as I used to use Atom & then Pulsar.

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I think it’s ctrl backtick ‘

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Thanks, I’ve taken some digressions. For example I now color my console.log outputs using %c and color: so as to get the results to stand out. I ask Chat GPT how to color things.