userinput
userinput — Data entered by the user.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
Attributes
Description
The userinput
element identifies words or
phrases that the user is expected to provide as input to a computer
program.
Note that userinput
is not a verbatim
environment, but an inline.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline. Often presented in a fixed-width font.
Parents
These elements contain userinput
: caption
(db.html.caption), citetitle
, computeroutput
, emphasis
, entry
, link
, literallayout
, orgdiv
, para
, phrase
(db.phrase), programlisting
, quote
, subtitle
, td
, term
, th
, title
, titleabbrev
, userinput
.
Children
The following elements occur in userinput: text, command
, computeroutput
, email
, filename
, inlinemediaobject
, literal
, option
, replaceable
, subscript
, superscript
, systemitem
, userinput
.
See Also
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example userinput</title>
<para>At the system prompt, enter <userinput>xyzzy</userinput> to gain
supervisor access to the system.
</para>
</article>
At the system prompt, enter xyzzy
to gain
supervisor access to the system.