mousebutton

mousebutton — The conventional name of a mouse button

Synopsis

mousebutton ::= [-]

Description

The mousebutton element identifies the conventional name of a mouse button. Because mouse buttons are not physically labelled, the name is just that, a convention. Adding explicit markup for the naming of mouse buttons allow easier translation from one convention to another and might allow an online system to adapt to right- or left-handed usage.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Children

The following elements occur in mousebutton: text, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, xref.

See Also

accel, guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, keycap, keycode, keycombo, keysym, menuchoice, shortcut

Examples

<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example mousebutton</title>

<para>Select a region of text by dragging the mouse pointer with the
<mousebutton>left</mousebutton> mouse button depressed.  Copy the
selected text to a new location by placing the mouse pointer at the
desired position and pressing the <mousebutton>middle</mousebutton>
button.
</para>

</article>

Select a region of text by dragging the mouse pointer with the left mouse button depressed. Copy the selected text to a new location by placing the mouse pointer at the desired position and pressing the middle button.

ChangeLog

This alpha reference page is $Revision: 7120 $ published Sun, 22 Jul 2007.