    | DocBook: The Definitive Guide 2.0.17 (Alpha) |
| | DocBook: The Definitive Guide 2.0.17 (Alpha) |
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$Date: 2002-06-12 07:19:37 -0400 (Wed, 12 Jun 2002) $
prompt — A character or string indicating the start of an input field in a computer display
prompt ::= (#PCDATA|replaceable|inlinegraphic|inlinemediaobject|indexterm|beginpage|co)*
Name | Type | Default | |||
| moreinfo |
| "none" |
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.
Formatted inline. The MoreInfo attribute
can help generate a link or query to retrieve additional information.
Prompt was added in DocBook V3.0. It duplicates the
semantics of <systemitem class="prompt">.
The prompt attribute will be removed from
SystemItem in the future.
These elements contain prompt:
action, application, attribution, bibliomisc, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, code, command, computeroutput, database, emphasis, entry, filename, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcparams, funcsynopsisinfo, function, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, hardware, interfacename, keycap, lineannotation, link, literal, literallayout, lotentry, member, msgaud, olink, option, optional, para, parameter, phrase, primary, primaryie, productname, programlisting, property, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, remark, screen, screeninfo, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, systemitem, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocback, tocentry, tocfront, trademark, ulink, userinput.
The following elements occur in prompt:
beginpage, co, indexterm, inlinegraphic, inlinemediaobject, replaceable.
computeroutput, constant, envar, filename, literal, markup, option, optional, parameter, replaceable, sgmltag, systemitem, userinput, varname.
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| programlistingco | | property |