In the previous tip, we created cheat sheets for PowerShell commands and turned them into HTML reports that could be opened in a browser, and printed. That worked well, but the output page wasn’t very fancy. With just a few HTML styles, your command list is ready for prime-time, and you can use the technique in this example to “beautify” any other HTML table you may create from PowerShell using ConvertTo-Html:
# adjust the name of the module # code will list all commands shipped by that module # list of all modules: Get-Module -ListAvailable $ModuleName = "PrintManagement" $Title = "PowerShell Print Management Commands" $OutFile = "$env:temp\commands.html" $StyleSheet = @" <title>$Title</title> <style> h1, th { text-align: center; font-family: Segoe UI; color:#0046c3;} table { margin: auto; font-family: Segoe UI; box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888; border: thin ridge grey; } th { background: #0046c3; color: #fff; max-width: 400px; padding: 5px 10px; } td { font-size: 11px; padding: 5px 20px; color: #000; } tr { background: #b8d1f3; } tr:nth-child(even) { background: #dae5f4; } tr:nth-child(odd) { background: #b8d1f3; } </style> "@ $Header = "<h1 align='center'>$title</h1>" Get-Command -Module $moduleName | Get-Help | Select-Object -Property Name, Synopsis | ConvertTo-Html -Title $Title -Head $StyleSheet -PreContent $Header | Set-Content -Path $OutFile Invoke-Item -Path $OutFile
