accel
accel — A graphical user interface (GUI) keyboard shortcut.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
- text
replaceable
- Graphic inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
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
subscript
superscript
trademark
wordasword
xref
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.
This element occurs in 58 elements.
This element contains 29 elements.
See Also
guibutton
, guiicon
, guilabel
, guimenu
, guimenuitem
, guisubmenu
, keycap
, keycode
, keycombo
, keysym
, menuchoice
, mousebutton
, shortcut
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example accel</title> <para os="windows">You can exit most Windows applications by selecting <guimenuitem><accel>Q</accel>uit</guimenuitem> or <guimenuitem>E<accel>x</accel>it</guimenuitem> from the <guimenu><accel>F</accel>ile</guimenu> menu. </para> </article>
You can exit most Windows applications by selecting
or from the menu.