accel

accel — A graphical user interface (GUI) keyboard shortcut.

Synopsis

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

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

An accelerator is usually a letter used with a Meta key (such as Ctrl or Alt) to activate some element of a GUI without using the mouse to point and click at it.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Parents

This element occurs in 56 elements.

Children

This element contains 16 elements.

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <title>Example accel</title>
    
  4 <para os="windows">You can exit most Windows applications by selecting
    <guimenuitem><accel>Q</accel>uit</guimenuitem> or
  6 <guimenuitem>E<accel>x</accel>it</guimenuitem> from
    the <guimenu><accel>F</accel>ile</guimenu> menu.
  8 </para>
    
 10 </article>

You can exit most Windows applications by selecting Quit or Exit from the File menu.


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