accel

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

Synopsis

Parents
×

accel ::= × ⏵

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

No additional 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.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

Parents

60 elements contain accel. × ⏵

These elements contain accel: bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, contrib, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, enumitemdescription, firstterm (db.firstterm), funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, link, literallayout, member, meta (db.meta.content), 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, synopsisinfo, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry, userinput.

Children

29 elements occur in accel. × ⏵

The following elements occur in accel: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, 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

Related elements: guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, keycap, keycode, keycombo, keysym, menuchoice, mousebutton, shortcut.

Examples

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

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