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.

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 username when the system presents the 
<prompt>login:</prompt> prompt.
</para>

</article>