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The status bar of a graphics editor will show information about the current image, such as its dimensions, color space, or resolution. In a word processor , the status bar often shows cursor position, the number of pages in the document, and the state of the caps lock , num lock , and scroll lock keys.
It contains mainly icons that show status information, though some programs, such as Winamp, use it for minimized windows. By default, this is located in the bottom-right of the primary monitor (or bottom-left on languages of Windows that use right-to-left reading order), or at the bottom of the taskbar if docked vertically.
A context menu from LibreOffice Writer, appearing when the user right-clicks on a page element A context menu from Ubuntu desktop. A context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and pop up or pop-up menu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation.
Menu bar of Mozilla Firefox, showing a submenu. A menu bar is a graphical control element which contains drop-down menus.. The menu bar's purpose is to supply a common housing for window- or application-specific menus which provide access to such functions as opening files, interacting with an application, or displaying help documentation or manuals.
An address bar, location bar or URL bar is a toolbar that mainly consists of a text box. It typically accepts URLs or file system addresses. They are found in web browsers and file managers. A breadcrumb or breadcrumb trail allows users to keep track of their locations within a program or a file system. They are toolbars whose contents ...
It is often the second menu in the menu bar, next to the file menu. [1] [2] [3] Whereas the file menu commonly contains commands about handling of files, such as open, save, and print, the edit menu commonly contains commands relating to the handling of information within a file, e.g. cut and paste and selection commands.
Use of a ribbon interface dates from the early 1990s in productivity software such as Microsoft Word and WordStar [1] as an alternative term for toolbar: It was defined as a portion of a graphical user interface consisting of a horizontal row of graphical control elements (e.g., including buttons of various sizes and drop-down lists containing icons), typically user-configurable.
The address bar is also used to show the security status of a web page; various designs are used to distinguish between insecure HTTP and encrypted HTTPS, alongside use of an Extended Validation Certificate, which some websites use to verify their identity. An example of the Firefox browser treating non-URL text as a search term