prompt
prompt — A character or string indicating the start of an input field in a computer display.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
- text
co
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
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.
This element occurs in 53 elements.
This element contains 30 elements.
See Also
computeroutput
, constant
, envar
, filename
, literal
, markup
, option
, optional
, parameter
, replaceable
, systemitem
, tag
, userinput
, varname
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.