prompt
prompt — A character or string indicating the start of an input field in a computer display.
Synopsis
prompt ::= ![[-]](figs/web/nav/down.gif)
- Zero or more of:
- text
coreplaceable- Graphic inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
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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.
Parents ![[+]](figs/web/nav/right.gif)
This element occurs in 53 elements.
Children
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.