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 CellInformation

Source Notebook

Retrieve information about selected cells in notebook

Contributed by: Wolfram Research

ResourceFunction["CellInformation"][notebook]

gives an association containing information about selected cells in the specified notebook object.

ResourceFunction["CellInformation"][obj]

gives information about the given cell or box object.

ResourceFunction["CellInformation"][{obj1,obj2,…}]

gives a list of information corresponding to the obji.

ResourceFunction["CellInformation"][…,prop]

gets the specified property.

Details and Options

ResourceFunction["CellInformation"] can take a NotebookObject, CellObject, or BoxObject.
ResourceFunction["CellInformation"] can give information both about selections within cells, and cells selected as a whole.
ResourceFunction["CellInformation"] returns a list of rules that include information on cell styles, selection positions, and other features.

Examples

Basic Examples (4) 

Get information about the current input cell:

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ResourceFunction["CellInformation"][EvaluationCell[]]
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See information about this text cell:

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ResourceFunction["CellInformation"][PreviousCell[]]
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Get a specific property:

In[3]:=
ResourceFunction["CellInformation"][EvaluationCell[], "Style"]
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Get multiple properties:

In[4]:=
ResourceFunction["CellInformation"][ PreviousCell[], {"Style", "ContentData"}]
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Scope (2) 

Open a notebook as a NotebookObject:

In[5]:=
nb = NotebookOpen[FindFile["ExampleData/document.nb"]]
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Select the first cell:

In[6]:=
SelectionMove[nb, Next, Cell]

Get information about the current selection:

In[7]:=
ResourceFunction["CellInformation"][nb]
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Select multiple cells and get the selected cell styles:

In[8]:=
SelectionMove[nb, All, CellGroup]; ResourceFunction["CellInformation"][nb, "Style"]
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In[10]:=
NotebookClose[nb]

CellInformation can also take a BoxObject, and will return information about the parent cell:

In[11]:=
Framed[Dynamic[box = EvaluationBox[]]]
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In[12]:=
ResourceFunction["CellInformation"][box]
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This is equivalent to getting CellInformation of the ParentCell:

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cell = ParentCell[box]
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In[14]:=
ResourceFunction["CellInformation"][cell]
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Applications (1) 

Get a Dataset containing information about all cells in the current notebook:

In[15]:=
Dataset[ResourceFunction["CellInformation"][ Cells[EvaluationNotebook[]]]]
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Version History

  • 2.0.0 – 07 June 2019
  • 1.0.0 – 27 February 2019

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