text box

See also: textbox

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From text +‎ box.

Noun

text box (plural text boxes)

  1. (typography) A block of printed text contained within borders that is intended to be read separately from the major text of the page.
    Synonyms: sidebar, sidebox
    • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 4:
      The graphic design of secondary schoolbooks, which includes many text boxes, captions, labelled diagrams, thought bubbles, etc., introduced a certain level of noise into the scanning and OCR[.]
  2. (computing, graphical user interface) A rectangular widget that accepts textual input on an interactive electronic display.
    Synonym: input field

Hypernyms

Translations

box containing text

References

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