TextElement[text,props]
represents an element of text with the specified properties.
TextElement[{elem1,elem2,…},props]
represents text formed from a sequence of elements.
TextElement[elems]
represents text where no properties are specified.


TextElement
TextElement[text,props]
represents an element of text with the specified properties.
TextElement[{elem1,elem2,…},props]
represents text formed from a sequence of elements.
TextElement[elems]
represents text where no properties are specified.
Details

- TextElement is displayed in a notebook with property information shown underneath.
- Properties are given in an association. The first value in the association is typically used in displaying the text element.
- Typical keys in the props association include:
-
"GrammaticalUnit" part of speech or type of phrase
Examples
Basic Examples (2)
TextElement for the noun "boat":
Create a list of TextElement representing words:
Wrap this list as a "GrammaticalUnit" entity into another TextElement:
Use TextElement to represent the splitting of a text into characters, words or phrases:
See Also
History
Text
Wolfram Research (2015), TextElement, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextElement.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2015. "TextElement." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextElement.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2015). TextElement. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextElement.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_textelement, author="Wolfram Research", title="{TextElement}", year="2015", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextElement.html}", note=[Accessed: 11-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_textelement, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={TextElement}, year={2015}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextElement.html}, note=[Accessed: 11-August-2025]}