prompt

prompt — A character or string indicating the start of an input field in a computer display.

Synopsis

prompt ::=

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.

Attributes

Common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

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.

Examples

1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  |<title>Example prompt</title>
  | 
  |<para>Enter your user name when the system presents the 
5 |<prompt>login:</prompt> prompt.
  |</para>
  | 
  |</article>

Enter your user name when the system presents the login: prompt.