AbsoluteOptions—Wolfram Documentation
AbsoluteOptions[obj]
gives the absolute settings of options used by the given object.
AbsoluteOptions[obj,{name1,name2,…}]
gives a list of the absolute settings for the options namei.
Details
- AbsoluteOptions gives the actual settings for options used internally by the Wolfram Language when the nominal setting is a symbolic value such as Automatic, All or Full.
- AbsoluteOptions[obj] gives values for all valid options of the object obj, whether explicitly set in obj or taken from global defaults. »
- AbsoluteOptions can be used with the following visual objects:
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Graphics[…] Graphics3D[…] AstroGraphics[…] GeoGraphics[…] Graph[…] - AbsoluteOptions can be used with the following user interface objects:
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BoxObject[…] CellObject[…] $DefaultFrontEnd $FrontEnd $FrontEndSession NotebookObject[…] - For some options, AbsoluteOptions may send a request to the front end to find the result. If the object obj is a user interface object, this will always be done.
- User interface objects with Dynamic option values will resolve the dynamics to their effective values.
Examples
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Scope (2)
Get the explicit settings for multiple options of a Graph object:
Obtain the explicit settings for all options of a GeoGraphics object:
Properties & Relations (1)
AbsoluteOptions[obj] gives values for all valid options of the object obj:
Options[obj], by contrast, only gives the settings for options explicitly set in obj:
Text
Wolfram Research (1999), AbsoluteOptions, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AbsoluteOptions.html (updated 2022).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1999. "AbsoluteOptions." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2022. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AbsoluteOptions.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1999). AbsoluteOptions. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AbsoluteOptions.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_absoluteoptions, author="Wolfram Research", title="{AbsoluteOptions}", year="2022", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AbsoluteOptions.html}", note=[Accessed: 22-February-2026]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_absoluteoptions, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={AbsoluteOptions}, year={2022}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AbsoluteOptions.html}, note=[Accessed: 22-February-2026]}