# How display a working Console in VSC --- solved

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**Category:** JavaScript\
**Created:** [November 24, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/how-display-a-working-console-in-vsc-solved/30120 "2024-11-24T19:53:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gallienus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.codewithmosh.com/gallienus/32/8935_2.png) [@Gallienus](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/u/Gallienus)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/how-display-a-working-console-in-vsc-solved/30120/1 "2024-11-24T19:53:32Z")

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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.
2. 

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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**Author:** ![UniqueNospaceShort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.codewithmosh.com/uniquenospaceshort/32/1814_2.png) [@UniqueNospaceShort](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/u/UniqueNospaceShort)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2024, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/how-display-a-working-console-in-vsc-solved/30120/2 "2024-11-24T21:58:52Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Gallienus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.codewithmosh.com/gallienus/32/8935_2.png) [@Gallienus](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/u/Gallienus)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 12:46am UTC](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/how-display-a-working-console-in-vsc-solved/30120/3 "2024-11-25T00:46:43Z")

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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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**Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 6:06am UTC](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/how-display-a-working-console-in-vsc-solved/30120/4 "2024-11-25T06:06:01Z")

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I think it’s ctrl backtick ‘

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**Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/how-display-a-working-console-in-vsc-solved/30120/5 "2024-11-25T16:16:31Z")

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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.