Built-in Mathematica Symbol

Cell

Cell[contents]
is the low-level representation of a cell inside a Mathematica notebook.

Cell[contents, "style"]
represents a cell in the specified style.

You can see the form of a cell as an expression by using the Show Expression menu 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].

	"text"	plain text
	TextData[{text₁,text₂,...}]	general text objects
	BoxData[boxes]	formatted Mathematica expressions
	OutputFormData["itext","otext"]
		text as generated by OutputForm
	RawData["data"]	unformatted expressions
	GraphicsData["type",data]	non-expression graphics or sound data
	CellGroupData[{cell₁,cell₂,...},status]
		group of cells
	StyleData["style"]	sample cell for a particular style

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

	Background	the color of the background for the cell
	CellFrame	whether to draw a frame around the cell
	CellTags	tags for the cell
	Editable	whether to allow the contents of the cell to be edited
	FontSize	the default size of text in the cell
	TextAlignment	how to align text in the cell

Create a text cell from a low-level description:

Create an expression cell from a low-level description: