TextCell
Details and Options
- Text cells are formatted like text, with appropriate spacing and line breaking.
- CellPrint [TextCell[expr]] inserts a text cell into your current notebook.
- Typical possible styles for text cells include "Title", "Section", "Text", etc.
- TextCell [Row [{expr1,expr2,…}]] generates a text cell containing a concatenation of the expri, which need not be only strings.
- TextCell can have any of the many options of Cell , including:
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Background the color of the background for the cellCellBaseline alignment relative to surrounding textCellFrame whether to draw a frame around the cellCellTags tags for the cellEditable whether to allow the contents of the cell to be editedFontSize the default size of text in the cellTextAlignment how to align text in the cell
Examples
open all close allBasic Examples (2)
This represents a cell that contains text:
This turns the cell expression into an actual cell in the current notebook:
abcdeCreate a cell with the Section style:
Scope (4)
Text cells can contain a mixture of simple text and Wolfram Language expressions:
Text cells can contain styled text:
Use different styles:
Use more than one style:
Applications (1)
Here is a simple function that produces a document as an answer using expression and text cells:
Properties & Relations (2)
TextCell and ExpressionCell format contents differently:
If the argument to TextCell is not a string or a Row , it will produce an expression cell:
See Also
Text Row TextGrid ExpressionCell CellGroup CellPrint Cell CreateDocument NotebookImport
Function Repository: CaptionCell
Related Guides
Related Workflows
- Programmatically Insert a Cell in a Notebook ▪
- Create a Section Heading
Text
Wolfram Research (2007), TextCell, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextCell.html (updated 2017).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2007. "TextCell." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2017. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextCell.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2007). TextCell. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextCell.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_textcell, author="Wolfram Research", title="{TextCell}", year="2017", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextCell.html}", note=[Accessed: 05-December-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_textcell, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={TextCell}, year={2017}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextCell.html}, note=[Accessed: 05-December-2025]}