TextGrid

TextGrid[{{expr11,expr12,…},{expr21,expr22,…},…}]

is an object that formats exprij textually and arranged in a two-dimensional grid.

Details and Options

  • In a notebook, you can modify the two-dimensional layout resulting from TextGrid by using to add columns and to add rows. All new columns and rows will use textual formatting.
  • You can use to move to the next placeholder in a TextGrid. moves out of the whole TextGrid.
  • TextGrid[…] formats as a grid in StandardForm and TraditionalForm.
  • In InputForm, TextGrid[…] formats literally as TextGrid[…].
  • Normal[grid] extracts the list of lists that make up a grid.
  • The exprij can be expressions of any kind. If the expression is a string or a TextCell, it will format textually. If the expression is a Row, then it will format the strings or TextCell elements of the Row textually.
  • Style["string","style"] can be used to specify a particular style for a string.
  • The listi in TextGrid[{list1,list2,…}] do not all need to be the same length; there will be empty space in the grid at the ends of shorter rows.
  • You can specify that an element e should span multiple positions in a grid using, for example, TextGrid[{{e,SpanFromLeft,SpanFromLeft},…}].
  • The following specify that a particular position should be spanned:
  • SpanFromLeftspan from left
    SpanFromAbovespan from above
    SpanFromBothspan from both left and above
  • A particular element can span both multiple rows and multiple columns, by having a rectangular section of the array with the form {{e,SpanFromLeft,SpanFromLeft,…}, {SpanFromAbove,SpanFromBoth,SpanFromBoth,…},…}.
  • In a notebook, you can combine selected elements in a grid to make a single spanning element using the Make Spanning menu item.
  • TextGrid has the same options as Grid.
  • The settings for BaseStyle are appended to the default style typically given by the "TextGrid" style in the current stylesheet.

    • List of all options

Examples

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Basic Examples  (2)

Display elements in a grid:

Put a frame around every element:

Scope  (4)

Elements in Grids  (4)

TextGrid can contain strings and TextCell expressions:

TextGrid can include styled text by using TextCell with Row and Style:

TextGrid can contain graphics or any other expressions:

TextGrid can contain active controls:

Wolfram Research (2015), TextGrid, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextGrid.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2015), TextGrid, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextGrid.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2015. "TextGrid." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextGrid.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2015). TextGrid. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextGrid.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_textgrid, author="Wolfram Research", title="{TextGrid}", year="2015", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextGrid.html}", note=[Accessed: 05-May-2025 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_textgrid, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={TextGrid}, year={2015}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextGrid.html}, note=[Accessed: 05-May-2025 ]}