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Dotted

is a graphics directive specifying that lines that follow should be drawn dotted.

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Dotted

Dotted

is a graphics directive specifying that lines that follow should be drawn dotted.

Examples

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Basic Examples  (2)

Dotted lines:

Dotted frame:

Scope  (2)

Use EdgeForm to draw dotted edges:

A plot with a dotted line:

Properties & Relations  (3)

Dotted is equivalent to Dashing[{0,Small}]:

Dashing and AbsoluteDashing provide richer ways to specify dashing:

Dotted is absolute dotting, independent of the image size:

Wolfram Research (2007), Dotted, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Dotted.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2007), Dotted, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Dotted.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2007. "Dotted." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Dotted.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2007). Dotted. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Dotted.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_dotted, author="Wolfram Research", title="{Dotted}", year="2007", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Dotted.html}", note=[Accessed: 13-August-2025]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_dotted, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={Dotted}, year={2007}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Dotted.html}, note=[Accessed: 13-August-2025]}