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A browser window allows the user to view and navigate through a collection of items, such as files or web pages. Web browsers are an example of these types of windows. Text terminal windows present a character-based, command-driven text user interfaces within the overall graphical interface. MS-DOS and Unix consoles are examples of these types ...
A graphical user interface (GUI) showing various elements: radio buttons, checkboxes, and other elements. A graphical user interface, or GUI [a], is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.
A web browser navigation bar includes the back and forward buttons, as well as the Location bar where URLs are entered. [3] Formerly, the functionality of the navigation bar was split between the browser's toolbar and the address bar, but Google Chrome introduced the practice of merging the two.
These buttons will show a graphical clue (such as staying depressed after the mouse is released) to indicate the state of the option. Such a button may be called a latch button or a latching switch. A button often displays a tooltip when a user moves the pointer over it, especially if the button's content is a standalone icon. The tooltip ...
Media controls on a multimedia keyboard. From top; left to right: skip backward, skip forward, stop, play/pause. Media control symbols are commonly found on both software and physical media players, remote controls, and multimedia keyboards.
Button – control which can be clicked upon to perform an action. An equivalent to a push-button as found on mechanical or electronic instruments. Radio button – control which can be clicked upon to select one option from a selection of options, similar to selecting a radio station from a group of buttons dedicated to radio tuning. Radio ...
Model–view–controller (MVC) is a software design pattern [1] commonly used for developing user interfaces that divides the related program logic into three interconnected elements. These elements are: the model, the internal representations of information; the view, the interface that presents information to and accepts it from the user
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.