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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.

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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:

Wolfram Language code: unmatched = RawBoxes[RowBox[{"{", "a", ",", "b"}]];

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

Wolfram Language code: CellPrint[{ExpressionCell[unmatched, "Input", ShowAutoStyles -> True, Evaluatable -> False], ExpressionCell[unmatched, "Input", ShowAutoStyles -> False, Evaluatable -> False]}]
Wolfram Language code: {a, b
Wolfram Language code: {a, b
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_2026_showautostyles, author="Wolfram Research", title="{ShowAutoStyles}", year="1999", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowAutoStyles.html}", note=[Accessed: 15-June-2026]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2026_showautostyles, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={ShowAutoStyles}, year={1999}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowAutoStyles.html}, note=[Accessed: 15-June-2026]}