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Subject:Re: What are these things called? From:William Swallow <WSWALLOW -at- COMMSOFT -dot- NET> Date:Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:32:49 -0400
The little tab-like thing you click is a "tab" (inventive terminology, no?).
The element that displays when you click a "tab" (the thing that show's the
tab's underlying info) is a "panel".
This is from the MS developer's dictionary (well, from my memory OF it),
available online from their site.
Bill Swallow
Technical Writer
Aptis
a subsidiary of Billing Concepts
phone: 518.433.7698
fax: 518.433.7680 mailto:wswallow -at- commsoft -dot- net http://www.aptissoftware.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jillian Mcavoy [SMTP:JMcavoy -at- ADGIFTS -dot- COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 11:59 AM
> Subject: What are these things called?
>
> I am writing a help system for a bespoke piece of software. If you click
> on
> a menu item, you get a screen with many file folder tabs for each section.
> What do I call them? MS manual of style has them in their Mac screen
> terminology, but they don't bother to label them.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jillian Flanagan-McAvoy
> Technical Writer
