RE: Terminology Q: Clicking on a tab displays a ?

Subject: RE: Terminology Q: Clicking on a tab displays a ?
From: "walden miller" <wmiller -at- vidiom -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 11:44:36 -0600

>
> I'm seeking a piece of terminology. Say I have
> a dialog box that has a series of tabs. When I click
> on a tab, what do I call the new "piece" of screen
> displayed that was previously hidden? It's not
> a new dialog box, but I can't call it "tab" since that
> suggests only the, er, "sticking-up" bit with the label
> on.
>

a page.

For example:

The XYZ dialog consists of five tabbed pages:
...
Clicking on the whosit tab displays the whosit page.
...
you get the gist.

Walden Miller
Director, Vidiom
Boulder, Colorado




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