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)

Create a raw box structure with an unmatched brace:

Compare a cell that automatically highlights the unmatched brace with one that does not:

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.

CMS

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

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2023_showautostyles, author="Wolfram Research", title="{ShowAutoStyles}", year="1999", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowAutoStyles.html}", note=[Accessed: 22-September-2023 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2023_showautostyles, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={ShowAutoStyles}, year={1999}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowAutoStyles.html}, note=[Accessed: 22-September-2023 ]}