prompt

prompt — A character or string indicating the start of an input field in a computer display

Synopsis

Content Model

prompt ::=

Zero or more of:
- text
- alt
- anchor
- annotation
- biblioref
- co
- indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
- indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
- indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
- inlinemediaobject
- link
- olink
- phrase (db._phrase)
- remark
- replaceable
- subscript
- superscript
- xref

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

A Prompt is a character or character string marking the beginning of an input field. Prompts are generally associated with command-line interfaces and not graphical user interfaces (GUIs). In GUIs, GUILabel is usually more appropriate.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Parents

These elements contain prompt: bridgehead, citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, computeroutput, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm, funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, html:button, html:label, html:legend, link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry, userinput.

Children

The following elements occur in prompt: text, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, co, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, xref.

Examples

<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example prompt</title>

<para>Enter your user name when the system presents the 
<prompt>login:</prompt> prompt.
</para>

</article>

Enter your user name when the system presents the login: prompt.

ChangeLog

This alpha reference page is $Revision: 1.4 $ published $Date: 2005/10/31 12:31:56 $.


programlisting		property