guilabel

guilabel — The text of a label in a GUI.

Synopsis

Zero or more of:
- text
- accel
- 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

A guilabel identifies text that appears as a label in a graphical user interface.

What constitutes a label may vary from application to application. In general, any text that appears in a GUI may be considered a label—for example, a message in a dialog box or a window title.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Parents

This element occurs in 51 elements.

Children

This element contains 17 elements.

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <title>Example guilabel</title>
    
  4 <para>The exact text of the <guilabel>Legend</guilabel> and other labels on the
    graph is dependent upon the language of the current locale.  Likewise,
  6 the text of the <guibutton>OK</guibutton> button and other buttons may vary.
    The <guiicon><inlinemediaobject>
  8 <imageobject condition="print">
    <imagedata fileref="figs/print/db5d_reficon01.pdf"/>
 10 </imageobject>
    <imageobject condition="web">
 12 <imagedata fileref="figs/web/db5d_reficon01.png"/>
    </imageobject>
 14 </inlinemediaobject></guiicon>
    icon and the other icons on the left side of the display may be
 16 configured by the local administrator, but they are not
    generally expected to vary from locale to locale.
 18 </para>
    
 20 </article>

The exact text of the Legend and other labels on the graph is dependent upon the language of the current locale. Likewise, the text of the OK button and other buttons may vary. The icon and the other icons on the left side of the display may be configured by the local administrator, but they are not generally expected to vary from locale to locale.


guiicon		guimenu