docs/sources/visualizations/panels-visualizations/configure-panel-options/index.md
There are settings common to all visualizations, which you set in the Panel options section of the panel editor pane. The following sections describe these options as well as how to set them.
Set the following options to provide basic information about a panel and define basic display elements:
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|---|---|
| Title | Text entered in this field appears at the top of your panel in the panel editor and in the dashboard. You can use variables you have defined or global variables. |
| Description | Text entered in this field appears in a tooltip in the upper-left corner of the panel. Add a description to a panel to share with users any important information about it, such as its purpose. You can use variables you have defined or dashboard-scoped global variables (such as $__from, $__to, $__dashboard, $__org, and $__user). Query-scoped global variables (such as $__interval and $__interval_ms) are not available in this field. |
| Transparent background | Toggle this switch on and off to control whether or not the panel has the same background color as the dashboard. |
| Panel links | Add links to the panel to create shortcuts to other dashboards, panels, and external websites. Access panel links by clicking the icon next to the panel title. |
| Repeat options | Set whether to repeat the panel for each value in the selected variable. For more information, refer to Configure repeating panels. |
You can use generative AI to populate the Title and Description fields with the Grafana LLM plugin, which is currently in public preview. To enable this, refer to Set up generative AI features for dashboards.
Grafana renders the Description field as GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM). You can use common Markdown and GFM features, including:
**bold**, _italic_, and ~~strikethrough~~`inline code` and fenced code blocks[link text](https://example.com) and images The description appears in a tooltip, so short copy and basic formatting work best. To break text into separate paragraphs, use an empty line between them, or use a list.
Grafana sanitizes the rendered HTML to reduce security risk and strips out or restricts arbitrary HTML, scripts, and many embedded elements, similar to Markdown in the Text visualization.
You can configure Grafana to dynamically add panels to a dashboard. A dynamic panel is a panel that the system creates based on the value of a multi-value variable. Variables dynamically change your queries across all panels in a dashboard.
To see an example of repeating panels, refer to this dashboard with repeating panels.
For information about repeating rows and tabs, refer to Configure repeat options.
Before you begin:
To configure repeating panels, follow these steps:
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Go to the dashboard you want to update and navigate to the panel you want to repeat.
If the dashboard is large, open the Content outline and use it to navigate to the part of the dashboard you want to update.
Click Edit.
Click the panel to open the sidebar.
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You can stop a panel from repeating by selecting Disable repeating in the Repeat by variable drop-down list.