Appearance
Details

- Typical settings for Appearance include Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, as well as such attributes as "Open" and "Closed".
- When multiple appearance specifications refer to a particular object, they are given in a list.
- When an object can be in several different states, the setting for Appearance can be given in the form {"cond1"->app1,"cond2"->app2,…}.
Examples
open all close allBasic Examples (6)
Display all the controls of Manipulator:
Display the current value of Manipulator as an editable label:
Force an ActionMenu object to look like a PopupMenu:
Control the appearance of Button:
Control the appearance of Opener:
Different appearances for the slider thumb are available on some platforms:
See Also
Related Guides
History
Text
Wolfram Research (2007), Appearance, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Appearance.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2007. "Appearance." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Appearance.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2007). Appearance. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Appearance.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_appearance, author="Wolfram Research", title="{Appearance}", year="2007", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Appearance.html}", note=[Accessed: 08-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_appearance, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={Appearance}, year={2007}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Appearance.html}, note=[Accessed: 08-August-2025]}