prompt
prompt — A character or string indicating the start of an input field in a computer display.
Synopsis
prompt ::= ![[x]](figs/web/nav/delete.gif)
![[+]](figs/web/nav/right.gif)
![[-]](figs/web/nav/down.gif)
- Zero or more of:
- text
coreplaceable- Graphic inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
Attributes
Description
A prompt is a character or character string
marking the beginning of an input field. The prompt
element is generally used for 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, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, computeroutput, contrib, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm (db.firstterm), funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote (db.quote), refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, remark, 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, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, co, coref, date, emphasis (db._emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), quote (db._quote), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.
See Also
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.