How to change the colors of xdebug output?

Question

The red and yellow standard colors of xdebug can hurt your eyes after a few hours.

http://www.designified.com/blog/article/76/restyling-xdebug-output describes how to replace the style with javascript requiring jquery.

I was looking for a more straight forward way and finally found one.

Answer 1

The solution is the !important tag, it overrides the existing style values. Use the following css code to avoid eye cancer when using xdebug:

.xdebug-error {
    font-size: 12px !important;
    width: 95% !important;
    margin: 0 auto 10px auto !important;
    border-color: #666 !important;
    background: #ddd !important;
}

.xdebug-error th, .xdebug-error td {
    padding: 2px !important;
}

.xdebug-error th {
    background: #ccc !important;
}

.xdebug-error span {
    display: none !important;
}

.xdebug-error_description th {
    font-size: 1.2em !important;
    padding: 20px 4px 20px 100px !important;
    background: #ccc no-repeat left top !important;
}

.xdebug-error_callStack th {
    background: #666 !important;
    color: #ddd !important;
}

Answer 2

Another option is to disable xdebug from overloading var_dump. In the php.ini [XDebug] section add xdebug.overload_var_dump=0

Formatting the output is then up to you; one such way could be wrapping var_dump in your own debug function that prints <pre> tags.

Answer 3

// notice the line height, the padding(cellspacing), monospace font, font size, making readability better at least for me.
//
// A FILENAME : xdebug_stack_trace.css
// 
// This is how the xdebug_stack_trace.css is called from the index.php page
// 
// <style><?php require_once("./resources/css/xdebug_stack_trace.css");?></ style>
// 
// notice that on the line above there is a space between the slash
// and the 'style', on the ending 'style' tag, otherwise the display
// get all messed up when this page gets loaded.
// 
// make sure that when you copy the 'style' line from here to the
// index page, that you remove the extra space at the ending 'style'
// tag of the index page.
// +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
// orange/black td header line
// +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
.xdebug-error th
{
    font-family:monospace;
    font-weight:normal;
    font-size:15px;
    padding: 6px 6px 6px 6px;
    border:1px solid black;
    background: #FFCC99;    // orange
    color:#000000;          // black 
}
// +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
// black/white th header line
// +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
.xdebug-error > tr:first-child > th:first-child,
.xdebug-error > tbody > tr:first-child > th:first-child
{
    line-height:1.6em;
    padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
    border:1px solid #000000;
    background: #000000;          // black
    color:#FFFFFF;
}
// +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
// green/black td content one or more lines
// +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
.xdebug-error td
{
    font-size:14px;
    padding: 6px 6px 6px 6px;
    border:1px solid green;
    background: #D1FFE8;          // light green
}
// +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+