Cell

Cell[contents, "style"] represents a cell in a Mathematica notebook.

A Mathematica notebook consists of a list of cells.

You can see the form of a cell as an expression by using the Show Expression command in the standard Mathematica front end.

You can access cells in a notebook directly using the front end. You can also access the cells from the kernel using NotebookRead and NotebookWrite, or using Options and SetOptions on NotebookSelection[obj].

The contents of cells can be the following:

In any given notebook, a collection of possible cell styles are defined, typically with names such as "Title", "Section", "Input" and "Output".

Cells can have many options, including:

See The Mathematica Book: Section 2.10.1 and Section 2.10.7.

See also: Notebook, CellPrint.