ShowAutoStyles
✖
ShowAutoStyles
is an option for Cell that specifies whether styles that are specified to be automatically used for various syntactic and other constructs should be shown.
Details

- The default setting is ShowAutoStyles->True.
- Details of automatic styles can be specified in the setting for AutoStyleOptions.
- For example, unmatched delimiters such as brackets are by default shown in purple.
Examples
Basic Examples (1)Summary of the most common use cases
Create a raw box structure with an unmatched brace:

https://wolfram.com/xid/01yltr92nee-2ywx1
Compare a cell that automatically highlights the unmatched brace with one that does not:

https://wolfram.com/xid/01yltr92nee-lhtarr

https://wolfram.com/xid/01yltr92nee-bmc1i

https://wolfram.com/xid/01yltr92nee-nuxlgk
Wolfram Research (1999), ShowAutoStyles, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowAutoStyles.html.
Text
Wolfram Research (1999), ShowAutoStyles, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowAutoStyles.html.
Wolfram Research (1999), ShowAutoStyles, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowAutoStyles.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1999. "ShowAutoStyles." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowAutoStyles.html.
Wolfram Language. 1999. "ShowAutoStyles." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowAutoStyles.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1999). ShowAutoStyles. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowAutoStyles.html
Wolfram Language. (1999). ShowAutoStyles. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowAutoStyles.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_showautostyles, author="Wolfram Research", title="{ShowAutoStyles}", year="1999", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowAutoStyles.html}", note=[Accessed: 11-July-2025
]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_showautostyles, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={ShowAutoStyles}, year={1999}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowAutoStyles.html}, note=[Accessed: 11-July-2025
]}