Patent ID: 8302070

Claim:
A method of formatting an output of source code in an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), said method comprising: selecting a source statement within a source code in the IDE, wherein the source statement includes an executable hard-coding; associating a selected style sheet definition of one or more available style sheet definitions with the selected source statement; automatically applying the selected style sheet definition within non-executable comments in the selected source statement to format an output of the selected source statement within the IDE, wherein the non-executable comments are separate from the executable hard-coding of the selected source statement; and in response to applying the selected style sheet definition to the selected source statement: a processor invoking a browser component of a console pane in the IDE, and the processor displaying, only within the console pane of the IDE, the formatted output of the selected source statement in a visual style that is defined by the selected style sheet definition, wherein the formatted output of the selected source statement is only viewable within the IDE during development time, and wherein an output of the source statement outside of the IDE is not formatted in the visual style defined by the selected style sheet definition.