represents an option value to be inherited from an enclosing style, cell, or notebook.
Inherited
represents an option value to be inherited from an enclosing style, cell, or notebook.
Details
- opt->Inherited is equivalent to giving no setting for opt at a particular level.
- If no explicit setting is given at any level, then a built‐in default value is used.
- Inherited is always effectively replaced by an explicit value before the option setting is used.
- If the nearest enclosing option setting is of the form opt->{a1,b1,…}, then an option setting in opt->{Inherited,b2,…} is taken to be equivalent to opt->{a1,b2,…}.
Examples
Basic Examples (2)
Create a cell with a font-size setting overriding the notebook-level setting:
Select the cell:
Cancel the cell-level setting for FontSize , letting the higher-level setting take effect:
Now the cell itself has no option settings:
This makes a cell in "Text" style:
This is the CellMargins setting inherited from "Text" style:
This cell uses its own setting for the right margin and inherits the other margins:
In this case, the Inherited symbol appears in the cell's CellMargins setting:
Related Guides
History
Text
Wolfram Research (2007), Inherited, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Inherited.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2007. "Inherited." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Inherited.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2007). Inherited. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Inherited.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_inherited, author="Wolfram Research", title="{Inherited}", year="2007", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Inherited.html}", note=[Accessed: 04-January-2026]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_inherited, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={Inherited}, year={2007}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Inherited.html}, note=[Accessed: 04-January-2026]}