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Prompt

Prompt

Name

Prompt --  Character indicating the start of an input field in a computer display.

Content Model

  (#PCDATA | Replaceable | InlineGraphic)+

Tag Minimization

Both the start- and end-tags are required for this element.

Description

Character indicating the start of an input field in a computer display. It may contain plain text, Replaceable, and InlineGraphic,, Replaceable, and InlineGraphic, and has MoreInfo and common attributes.

Prompt, new in version 3.0, duplicates the Prompt value of the Class attribute of SystemItem; that value will be eliminated in the future.

Children

Prompt contains these elements: InlineGraphic, #PCDATA, Replaceable.

In some contexts, some of these elements may be invalid due to exclusions in parent elements.

Attributes

MoreInfo

Indicates whether the element's content has an associated RefEntry.

Examples

<SCREEN ID="SC-1015-12-24" WIDTH="44">
<PROMPT>%</PROMPT> <USERINPUT>make install</USERINPUT>
install -c -m 0644 rgb.txt /usr/lib/X11
install -c -m 0644 rgb.dir /usr/lib/X11
install -c -m 0644 rgb.pag /usr/lib/X11
install -c -s showrgb /usr/lib/X11
install in ./rgb done

</SCREEN>