mousebutton

mousebutton — The conventional name of a mouse button.

Synopsis

Description

The mousebutton element identifies the conventional name of a mouse button. Because mouse buttons are not physically labeled, the name is just that, a convention. Adding explicit markup for the naming of mouse buttons allows easier translation from one convention to another and might allow an online system to adapt to right- or lefthanded usage.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Parents [+]

This element occurs in 52 elements.

Children [+]

This element contains 16 elements.

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <title>Example mousebutton</title>
    
  4 <para>Select a region of text by dragging the mouse pointer with the
    <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> mouse button depressed.  Copy the
  6 selected text to a new location by placing the mouse pointer at the
    desired position and pressing the <mousebutton>middle</mousebutton>
  8 button.
    </para>
 10 
    </article>

Select a region of text by dragging the mouse pointer with the left mouse button depressed. Copy the selected text to a new location by placing the mouse pointer at the desired position and pressing the middle button.

Last revised by Norman Walsh on 6 Jun 2011 (git hash: 6ffcc7640bbc5f852a318e452c9f210f03292cb9)